Adaptive threonine increase in transmembrane regions of mitochondrial proteins in higher primates.

BACKGROUND: The mitochondrial (mt) gene tree of placental mammals reveals a very strong acceleration of the amino acid (AA) replacement rate and a change in AA compositional bias in the lineage leading to the higher primates (simians), in contrast to the nuclear gene tree. Whether this acceleration...

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मुख्य लेखकों: Yasuhiro Kitazoe, Hirohisa Kishino, Masami Hasegawa, Noriaki Nakajima, Jeffrey L Thorne, Masashi Tanaka
स्वरूप: लेख
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
श्रृंखला:PLoS ONE
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2553178?pdf=render