Gene turnover and differential retention in the relaxin/insulin-like gene family in primates

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 768-776

  Arroyo, José Ignacio ^a   Hoffmann, Federico G ^b,c   Opazo, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth and death; Differential retention; Gene duplication; Gene family evolution; Insulin like peptide; Primates; Relaxin

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; RELAXIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RELAXIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859826546     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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