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Strong positive selection drives rapid diversification of R-genes in Arabidopsis relatives.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Feb 2010
Chen Qihan, Han Zhaoxue, Jiang Haiyang, Tian Dacheng, Yang Sihai
Abstract excerpt
Although plant resistance (R) genes are extremely diverse and evolve rapidly, little is known about the mechanisms that generate this sequence divergence. To investigate these forces, we compared all nucleotide binding sites and leucine-rich repeat R-genes between two closely related species, Ara...
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