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Tandem duplication, circular permutation, molecular adaptation: how Solanaceae resist pests via inhibitors.
BMC bioinformatics - 1 Jan 2008
Kong Lesheng, Ranganathan Shoba
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BACKGROUND: The Potato type II (Pot II) family of proteinase inhibitors plays critical roles in the defense system of plants from Solanaceae family against pests. To better understand the evolution of this family, we investigated the correlation between sequence and structural repeats within this family and the evolution and molecular adaptation of Pot II genes through computational analysis, using the putative...
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