The Modular And Duplicative Nature Of Protein Evolution

(Kaessmann, Zollner et al. 2002; Ponting and Russell 2002; Young and Trask 2002; Lutfalla, Roest Crollius et al. 2003; Karev, Wolf et al. 2004; Liu and Grigoriev 2004; Malnic, Godfrey et al. 2004; Bennetzen 2005; Bornberg-Bauer, Beaussart et al. 2005; Liu, Walch et al. 2005; Makarova, Wolf et al. 2005; Morgante, Brunner et al. 2005; Niimura and Nei 2005; Orengo and Thornton 2005; Presgraves 2005; Quignon, Giraud et al. 2005; Terakita 2005; Wang, Zheng et al. 2005; Wuchty and Almaas 2005; Barbosa-Morais, Carmo-Fonseca et al. 2006; Bjorklund, Ekman et al. 2006; Casneuf, De Bodt et al. 2006; Diao and Lisch 2006; Fleming, Kelley et al. 2006; Goldman, Nierman et al. 2006; Lin, Kong et al. 2006; Peisajovich, Rockah et al. 2006; Vogel and Chothia 2006; Vogel and Morea 2006; del Sol and Carbonell 2007; Ekman, Bjorklund et al. 2007; Fu and Yau 2007; Hahn, Han et al. 2007; Hernandez-Hernandez, Martinez-Castilla et al. 2007; Itoh, Nacher et al. 2007; Kurland, Canback et al. 2007; Lamb, Collin et al. 2007; Liang and Li 2007; Makarova and Koonin 2007; Niimura and Nei 2007; Rasteiro and Pereira-Leal 2007; Schmidt and Davies 2007; Zabala and Vodkin 2007; Basu, Carmel et al. 2008; De Grassi, Lanave et al. 2008; Evlampiev and Isambert 2008; Frenkel and Trifonov 2008; Go and Niimura 2008; Hasin, Olender et al. 2008; Hoffmann, Opazo et al. 2008; Moore, Bjorklund et al. 2008; Olender, Lancet et al. 2008; Sammeth, Foissac et al. 2008; Sammut, Finn et al. 2008; Tadepally, Burger et al. 2008; Weiner, Moore et al. 2008; Wensel 2008; Young, Endicott et al. 2008; Basu, Poliakov et al. 2009; Buljan and Bateman 2009; Gordon, Byrne et al. 2009; Hanada, Kuromori et al. 2009; Hanada, Vallejo et al. 2009; Hasin-Brumshtein, Lancet et al. 2009; Jun, Ryvkin et al. 2009; Kawashima, Kawashima et al. 2009; Kordis and Turk 2009; Kummerfeld and Teichmann 2009; Li, Zhang et al. 2009; Makino, Hokamp et al. 2009; Moscou and Bogdanove 2009; Pan and Zhang 2009; Solovei, Kreysing et al. 2009; Templeton 2009; Valas, Yang et al. 2009; Wang and Caetano-Anolles 2009; Warnecke, Weber et al. 2009; Yang and Bourne 2009; Yau and Hardie 2009; Bagowski, Bruins et al. 2010; Bentley and Adams 2010; Boyer, Madoui et al. 2010; Burns and Pugh 2010; Cancherini, Franca et al. 2010; Capra, Pollard et al. 2010; Charoensawan, Wilson et al. 2010; Collin 2010; Grassi, Fusco et al. 2010; Hunt, Buch et al. 2010; Immink, Kaufmann et al. 2010; Karan, Frederick et al. 2010; Lang, Weiche et al. 2010; Ozbek, Balasubramanian et al. 2010; Pu, Turinsky et al. 2010; Sebe-Pedros and Ruiz-Trillo 2010; Wang, Dong et al. 2010; Zhang, Zmasek et al. 2010; D'Antonio and Ciccarelli 2011; Furuta, Kawai et al. 2011; Furuta, Yahara et al. 2011; Irimia, Maeso et al. 2011; Kim and Caetano-Anolles 2011; Koralewski and Krutovsky 2011; Li, Huang et al. 2011; Mahfouz, Li et al. 2011; Voolstra, Sunagawa et al. 2011)

Domain organization of proteins

(Carbone, Ramirez-Prado et al. 2007; Ren, Yang et al. 2008; Trifonov and Frenkel 2009; Wang, Martin et al. 2009; Rorick and Wagner 2011; Zmasek and Godzik 2011)

Domain amplification, accretion, loss and shuffling

(Hall, Liu et al. 1989; Moran, DeBerardinis et al. 1999; Hiller, Hetzer et al. 2000; Kolkman and Stemmer 2001; Kaessmann, Zollner et al. 2002; Ejima and Yang 2003; Da Lage, Feller et al. 2004; Liu and Grigoriev 2004; Morgante, Brunner et al. 2005; Babushok, Ohshima et al. 2007; Evlampiev and Isambert 2007; Kawashima, Kawashima et al. 2009; Wang, Martin et al. 2009; Cancherini, Franca et al. 2010; Elrouby and Bureau 2010; Stover, Dixon et al. 2011; Taniguchi-Ikeda, Kobayashi et al. 2011; Zmasek and Godzik 2011)

Protein families (paralogues)

(Young, Friedman et al. 2002; Young and Trask 2002; Lockton and Gaut 2005; Youngson, Kocialkowski et al. 2005; Lajoie, Bertrand et al. 2007; Chauve, Doyon et al. 2008; Young, Endicott et al. 2008; Zhang, Song et al. 2009; Davis, Lowman et al. 2010; Lajoie, Bertrand et al. 2010; Shimeld, Degnan et al. 2010; Zhou, Huang et al. 2010; Hurle, Marques-Bonet et al. 2011)

 

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