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Evolutionary dynamics of eukaryotic selenoproteomes: large selenoproteomes may associate with aquatic life and small with terrestrial life

Alexey V Lobanov¹, Dmitri E Fomenko¹, Yan Zhang¹, Aniruddha Sengupta², Dolph L Hatfield² and Vadim N Gladyshev¹^*

¹ Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA

² Section on the Molecular Biology of Selenium, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R198 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-r198

Published: 19 September 2007

Additional data file 1:

Block-scheme of the searches for selenoprotein genes.

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Additional data file 2:

Amino acid sequence alignments of selenoproteins identified in this study.

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Additional data file 3:

Sequence and predicted clover-leaf structure of T. pseudonana Sec tRNA.

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Additional data file 4:

Representative phylogenetic trees of selenoproteins.

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