Deciphering the relationship between mating system and the molecular evolution of the pheromone and receptor genes in neurospora

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3827-3842

  Nygren, Kristiina ^a,b   Strandberg, Rebecka ^a   Gioti, Anastasia ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^b   Johannesson, Hanna ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

homothallism; Neurospora; pheromones; receptors

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; PRE 1 PROTEIN; PRE 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLADISTICS; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROTHALLIC TAXA; HOMOTHALLIC TAXA; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MATING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; RECEPTOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOP CODON; TAXONOMY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 84867450971     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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