Complex patterns of gene fission in the eukaryotic folate biosynthesis pathway

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2709-2720

  Maguire, Finlay ^a   Henriquez, Fiona L ^b   Leonard, Guy ^c   Dacks, Joel B ^a,d   Brown, Matthew W ^e   Richards, Thomas A ^c,f  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

comparative genomics; Diaphoretickes.; phylogenetics; pterin biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOLIC ACID; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84965085066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu213     Document Type: Article

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