In silico characterization and molecular evolutionary analysis of a novel superfamily of fungal effector proteins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3371-3384

  Stergiopoulos, Ioannis ^a,b,c,d   Kourmpetis, Yiannis A I ^c,e   Slot, Jason C ^b   Bakker, Freek T ^c   De Wit, Pierre J G M ^c,f   Rokas, Antonis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

^e NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^f KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

adaptive evolution; birth and death; diversification; effectors; fungi; GH18 chitinases

Indexed keywords

ECP2 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSIDASE; HCE2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENBANK; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TAXONOMY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867820378     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss143     Document Type: Article

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