REC protein family expansion by the emergence of a new signaling pathways
M. E. Garber, V. Frank, A. E. Kazakov, H. Zhang, M. R. Incha, J. D. Keasling, L. Rajeev, A. Mukhopadhyay
The paper identifies a mechanism of REC protein family expansion through gene recombination and positive selection, leading to functional divergence in bacterial response regulators.
bioRxiv · Sep 30, 2020Evolutionary Biology