A pluralistic account of homology: Adapting the models to the data

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 501-516

  Haggerty, Leanne S ^a   Jachiet, Pierre Alain ^b   Hanage, William P ^c   Fitzpatrick, David A ^a   Lopez, Philippe ^b   O'Connell, Mary J ^d   Pisani, Davide ^a,e   Wilkinson, Mark ^f   Bapteste, Eric ^b   McInerney, James O ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Unité Mixte de Recherche 7138 Systématique Adaptation Evolution Université Pierre et Marie Curie ^*  (France)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

comparative genomics; epaktolog; homology; network; ortholog; paralog

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; EPAKTOLOG; HOMOLOGY; NETWORK; ORTHOLOG; PARALOG;

DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84895732115     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst228     Document Type: Review

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