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SUBMITTER: Hunt PW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3365290 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hunt P W PW McNally J J Barris W W Blaxter M L ML
Journal of nematology 20090301 1
In common with many other groups, nematodes express globins with unknown functions. Nematode globin-like genes can be divided into class 1 globins, similar to vertebrate myoglobins, and a wide range of additional classes. Here we show that class 1 nematode globins possess a huge amount of diversity in gene sequence and structure. There is evidence for multiple events of gene duplication, intron insertion and loss between species, and for allelic variation effecting both synonymous and non-synony ...[more]