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Numbers of genes in the NBS and RLK families vary by more than four-fold within a plant species and are regulated by multiple factors.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Oct 2010
Zhang Meiping, Wu Yen-Hsuan, Lee Mi-Kyung, Liu Yun-Hua, Rong Ying, Santos Teofila S, Wu Chengcang, Xie Fangming, Nelson Randall L, Zhang Hong-Bin
Abstract excerpt
Many genes exist in the form of families; however, little is known about their size variation, evolution and biology. Here, we present the size variation and evolution of the nucleotide-binding site (NBS)-encoding gene family and receptor-like kinase (RLK) gene family in Oryza, Glycine and Gossypium. The sizes of both families vary by numeral fold, not only among species, surprisingly, also within a species. The...
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