Evolution of selenophosphate synthetases: emergence and relocation of function through independent duplications and recurrent subfunctionalization
Marco Mariotti, Didac Santesmasses, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Andrea Mateo, Carme Arnan, Rory Johnson, Salvatore D'Aniello, Sun Hee Yim, Vadim N Gladyshev, Florenci Serras, Montserrat Corominas, Toni Gabaldon, Roderic Guigo
The paper traces the evolutionary history of selenophosphate synthetase (SPS) genes, showing how they duplicated and subfunctionalized to acquire distinct roles in metazoans.
Genome Research · Sep 1, 2015Peer-reviewedGenomics