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Sequence features and evolutionary mechanisms in the chicken avidin gene family.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 20 Jul 2001
Ahlroth M K, Grapputo A, Laitinen O H, Kulomaa M S
Abstract excerpt
The chicken avidin gene family comprises the avidin gene (avd) and several homologous avidin-related genes (avrs). The sequences of the avr genes are nearly identical to each other but exhibit nonrandomly distributed, frequently nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions compared to avd. In this study, we determined the genetic distances and the phylogeny of the avd and avr genes and found differences between...
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