Excessive homoplasy in an evolutionarily constrained protein.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1996.0060

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Excessive homoplasy in an evolutionarily constrained protein.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Apr 1996

Wells R S

Abstract excerpt

The evolution of monomorphic proteins among closely related species has not been examined in detail. To investigate this phenomenon, the glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (Gpdh) locus was sequence in a broad range of Drosophila species. Although purifying selection to remove amino acid variation...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Drosophila
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Phylogeny
Proteins
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Species Specificity

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