The Roles of Gene Duplication, Gene Conversion and Positive Selection in Rodent Esp and Mup Pheromone Gene Families with Comparison to the Abp Family

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Karn, Robert C ^a   Laukaitis, Christina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANDROGEN BINDING PROTEIN; EXOCRINE GLAND SECRETING PEPTIDE; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; RODENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANDROGEN-BINDING PROTEIN; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RATS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867668496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047697     Document Type: Article

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