Research article
The nuclear OXPHOS genes in insecta: a common evolutionary origin, a common cis-regulatory motif, a common destiny for gene duplicates
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* Corresponding author: Corrado Caggese caggese@biologia.uniba.it
1 Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia (DIGEMI), Università di Bari, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Bari, Italy
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:215 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-215
Published: 8 November 2007Additional files
Additional file 1:
Intron gain/loss in the Drosophilidae OXPHOS genes. Intron gain/loss in the Drosophilidae OXPHOS genes determined by comparing the pre-mRNA structures.
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Additional file 2:
Intron gain/loss in the Culicidae OXPHOS genes. Intron gain/loss in the Culicidae OXPHOS genes determined by comparing the pre-mRNA structures.
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Additional file 3:
Relics of NRG elements in duplicated OXPHOS genes. The regions of the putative parental gene encompassing the standard NRG motif(s), highlighted in yellow, are aligned with the orthologous regions of the duplicate.
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