Analysis of c3 suggests three periods of positive selection events and different evolutionary patterns between fish and mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Meng, Fanxing ^a   Sun, Yuena ^a   Liu, Xuezhu ^a   Wang, Jianxin ^a   Xu, Tianjun ^a   Wang, Rixin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; C3 GENE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FISH; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITIVE SELECTION EVENT; POSITIVE SELECTION PRESSURE; PRESSURE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPLEMENT C3; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862114365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037489     Document Type: Article

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