Duplication and diversification of dipteran argonaute genes, and the evolutionary divergence of Piwi and Aubergine

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 507-518

  Lewis, Samuel H ^a,c   Salmela, Heli ^b   Obbard, Darren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Diptera; Gene duplication; Piwi; RNAi

Indexed keywords

AGO1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; AGO2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; AGO3 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; AUBERGINE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; PIWI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AEDES; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; INSECT GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, INSECT; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84992669639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw018     Document Type: Article

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