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SUBMITTER: Pankey MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4226117 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pankey M Sabrina MS Minin Vladimir N VN Imholte Greg C GC Suchard Marc A MA Oakley Todd H TH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141021 44
Despite contingency in life's history, the similarity of evolutionarily convergent traits may represent predictable solutions to common conditions. However, the extent to which overall gene expression levels (transcriptomes) underlying convergent traits are themselves convergent remains largely unexplored. Here, we show strong statistical support for convergent evolutionary origins and massively parallel evolution of the entire transcriptomes in symbiotic bioluminescent organs (bacterial photoph ...[more]