Protist homologs of the meiotic Spo11 gene and topoisomerase VI reveal an evolutionary history of gene duplication and lineage-specific loss.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on October 05, 2007

Authors

Shehre-Banoo Malik1, Marilee A Ramesh, Alissa M Hulstrand, John M Logsdon

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biological Sciences, Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, USA.

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