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Subfamilies of cpmA, a gene involved in circadian output, have different evolutionary histories in cyanobacteria.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Jan 2006
Dvornyk Volodymyr
Abstract excerpt
The cpmA gene mediates an output signal in the cyanobacterial circadian system. This gene and its homologues are evolutionarily old, and occur in some non-photosynthetic bacteria and archaea as well as in cyanobacteria. The gene has two functional domains that differ drastically in their level of polymorphism: the N-terminal domain is much more variable than the PurE homologous C-terminal domain. The phylogenetic...
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