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Micro-plasticity of genomes as illustrated by the evolution of glutathione transferases in 12 Drosophila species.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Saisawang Chonticha, Ketterman Albert J
Abstract excerpt
Glutathione transferases (GST) are an ancient superfamily comprising a large number of paralogous proteins in a single organism. This multiplicity of GSTs has allowed the copies to diverge for neofunctionalization with proposed roles ranging from detoxication and oxidative stress response to involvement in signal transduction cascades. We performed a comparative genomic analysis using FlyBase annotations and...
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