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Adaptive functional diversification of lysozyme in insectivorous bats.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2014

Liu Yang, He Guimei, Xu Huihui, Han Xiuqun, Jones Gareth, Rossiter Stephen J, Zhang Shuyi

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The role of gene duplication in generating new genes and novel functions is well recognized and is exemplified by the digestion-related protein lysozyme. In ruminants, duplicated chicken-type lysozymes facilitate the degradation of symbiotic bacteria in the foregut. Chicken-type lysozyme has also been reported to show chitinase-like activity, yet no study has examined the molecular evolution of lysozymes in...

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PMID: 25135943
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu240

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