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Comparative genomics reveals a constant rate of origination and convergent acquisition of functional retrogenes in Drosophila

Yongsheng Bai, Claudio Casola, Cédric Feschotte and Esther Betrán*

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Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R11 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-1-r11

Published: 18 January 2007

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Retrogenes and parental genes, their location, gene structure and sequence analyses.

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Inferences of the presence/absence of retrogenes and parental genes in every Drosophila genome.

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KS and KA correlation with our phylogenetic assignment (gene age estimate).

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Statistical analysis of duplication between chromosomes.

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Proportions of parental genes and retrogenes expressed in every cDNA/EST library analyzed.

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A KS (Nei-Gojobori method) neighbor-joining tree of some members of the gene family is shown. Bootstrap values are shown in the nodes after 10,000 replications. MEGA [52] was used for this phylogenetic reconstruction. Chromosomal location was inferred from the location of flanking genes in D. melanogaster and is also given.

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A KA and KS (Nei-Gojobori method) neighbor-joining tree of some members of the gene family is shown. Bootstrap values are shown in the nodes after 10,000 replications. MEGA [52] was used for this phylogenetic reconstruction. Chromosomal location was inferred from the location of flanking genes in D. melanogaster and is also given.

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