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Targets of selection in a disease resistance network in wild tomatoes.
Molecular plant pathology - 1 Dec 2011
Rose Laura E, Grzeskowiak Lukasz, Hörger Anja C, Groth Martin, Stephan Wolfgang
Abstract excerpt
Studies combining comparative genomics and information on biochemical pathways have revealed that protein evolution can be affected by the amount of pleiotropy associated with a particular gene. The amount of pleiotropy, in turn, can be a function of the position at which a gene operates in a pathway and the pathway structure. Genes that serve as convergence points and have several partners (so-called hubs) often...
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