BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Evolutionary history of histone demethylase families: distinct evolutionary patterns suggest functional divergence

Xiaofan Zhou1,2 and Hong Ma1,2,3*

Author Affiliations

1 The Intercollege Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, the Pennsylvania State University, 415 Life Science Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA

2 Department of Biology, the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, the Pennsylvania State University, 405D Life Science Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA

3 School of Life Sciences, the Institute of Plant Biology, the Center for Evolutionary Biology, the Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:294 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-294

Published: 24 October 2008

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List of all the AOD genes and JmjC genes included in this study.

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A NJ tree for fungal KDM1 genes.

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Ka/Ks analysis of animal KDM1A and KDM1B genes.

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