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Phycoerythrin evolution and diversification of spectral phenotype in marine Synechococcus and related picocyanobacteria.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 2012
Everroad R Craig, Wood A Michelle
Abstract excerpt
In marine Synechococcus there is evidence for the adaptive evolution of spectrally distinct forms of the major light harvesting pigment phycoerythrin (PE). Recent research has suggested that these spectral forms of PE have a different evolutionary history than the core genome. However, a lack of explicit statistical testing of alternative hypotheses or for selection on these genes has made it difficult to...
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