Gene Conversions and Selection in the Gene Families of Primates

We used the GENECONV program, the Hsu et al. (2010) method and phylogenetic analyses to analyze the gene conversions which occurred in the growth hormone, folate receptor and trypsin gene families of six primate species. Significant positive correlations were found between sequence similarity and co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petronella, Nicholas
Other Authors: Drouin, Guy
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2012
Subjects:
GH1
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20538
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5149