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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The nuclear OXPHOS genes in insecta: a common evolutionary origin, a common cis-regulatory motif, a common destiny for gene duplicates

Damiano Porcelli¹ , Paolo Barsanti¹ , Graziano Pesole² and Corrado Caggese¹

¹Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia (DIGEMI), Università di Bari, Italy

²Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Bari, Italy

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:215doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-215


Published:	8 November 2007

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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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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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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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