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Molecular adaptation and expression evolution following duplication of genes for organellar ribosomal protein S13 in rosids

Shao-Lun Liu email and Keith Adams email

UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research and Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:25doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-25

Published: 26 January 2008

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Mt rps13 distribution among rosids. The figure shows losses of mt rps13 among rosids in a phylogenetic context, and the inferred timing of numit rps13 formation by gene duplication.

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Pairwise Ka and Ks analyses. The table shows the results of Ka analysis and Ks analysis for numit rps13 and nucp rps13 in seven rosid species.

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Microarray data legend. The table lists the organs and developmental stages from Arabidopsis thaliana for which microarray data were analyzed.

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RNA editing of mt rps13 in Malus compared with other flowering plants. The figure shows an alignment of mt rps13 from several land plants, indicating the positions of RNA editing sites in Malus, and a list of mt rps13 RNA editing sites from several angiosperms.

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Sequence alignment. The figure shows an alignment of numit rps13, nucp rps13, and cDNAs of mt rps13 for taxa analyzed in this study. The targeting sequences at the 5' end of the numit rps13 and nucp rps13 genes do not align with each other and were excluded from Ka/Ks analysis.

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RT-PCR primers. The table lists the primers used for RT-PCR and qRT-PCR experiments.

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