Carotenoids in unexpected places: Gall midges, lateral gene transfer, and carotenoid biosynthesis in animals

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 221-228

  Cobbs, Cassidy ^a   Heath, Jeremy ^b   Stireman, John O ^b   Abbot, Patrick ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Pigment; Plant insect interaction

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; INSECT PROTEIN; ISOMERASE; LYCOPENE CYCLASE ISOMERASE; LYCOPENE CYCLASE-ISOMERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHYTOENE DEHYDROGENASE; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DIPTERA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CAROTENOIDS; DIPTERA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GERANYLGERANYL-DIPHOSPHATE GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; CECIDOMYIIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; TETRANYCHIDAE;

EID: 84878106558     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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