The Role of Gene Duplication and Unconstrained Selective Pressures in the Melanopsin Gene Family Evolution and Vertebrate Circadian Rhythm Regulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Borges, Rui ^a,b   Johnson, Warren E ^c   O'Brien, Stephen J ^c,d   Vasconcelos, Vitor ^a,b   Antunes, Agostinho ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; INHIBITORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MELANOPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPN4M GENE; OPN4X GENE; PARALOGY; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POSITIVE SELECTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PURIFYING SELECTION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; ROD OPSINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNTENY; VERTEBRATES;

TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871388422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052413     Document Type: Article

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