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Mining EST databases to resolve evolutionary events in major crop species.
Genome - 1 Oct 2004
Schlueter Jessica A, Dixon Phillip, Granger Cheryl, Grant David, Clark Lynn, Doyle Jeff J, Shoemaker Randy C
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Using plant EST collections, we obtained 1392 potential gene duplicates across 8 plant species: Zea mays, Oryza sativa, Sorghum bicolor, Hordeum vulgare, Solanum tuberosum, Lycopersicon esculentum, Medicago truncatula, and Glycine max. We estimated the synonymous and nonsynonymous distances between each gene pair and identified two to three mixtures of normal distributions corresponding to one to three rounds of...
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