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SUBMITTER: Cheng D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4033408 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheng Daojun D Qian Wenliang W Meng Meng M Wang Yonghu Y Peng Jian J Xia Qingyou Q
International journal of genomics 20140506
The BTB domain is a conserved protein-protein interaction motif. In this study, we identified 56 BTB domain-containing protein genes in the silkworm, in addition to 46 in the honey bee, 55 in the red flour beetle, and 53 in the monarch butterfly. Silkworm BTB protein genes were classified into nine subfamilies according to their domain architecture, and most of them could be mapped on the different chromosomes. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that silkworm BTB protein genes may have undergone a d ...[more]