Conditional expression explains molecular evolution of social genes in a microbe
oleh: 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
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2019-07-01 |
Deskripsi
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.