Conditional expression explains molecular evolution of social genes in a microbe

Autor: Janaina Lima de Oliveira, Atahualpa Castillo Morales, Balint Stewart, Nicole Gruenheit, Jennifer Engelmoer, Suzanne Battom Brown, Reinaldo A. de Brito, Laurence D. Hurst, Araxi O. Urrutia, Christopher R. L. Thompson, Jason B. Wolf
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11237-2
Popis: Genetic diversity in social genes is expected to be shaped by conflict. Here, the authors show that in Dictyostelium discoideum, social genes in fact exhibit diversification patterns consistent with relaxed purifying selection, likely due to their expression only in intermittent social generations.
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