Duplication and diversifying selection among termite antifungal peptides

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2256-2264

  Bulmer, Mark S ^a   Crozier, Ross H ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defensins; Diversifying selection; Gene duplication; Immune genes; Protein evolution; Termicins; Termites

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TERMICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOCANTHOTERMES SPINIGER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DEFENSINS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; ISOPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DREPANOTERMES RUBRICEPS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES;

EID: 8444238186     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh236     Document Type: Article

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