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Tracing the evolutionary origins of human voltage-gated K+ channels: where they come from and what we lost along the way
Zhaoyang Jiang, Neha Kopri, Alla Zurnachyan, Timothy J. Jegla
The paper traces the evolutionary origins of human voltage-gated K+ channels, identifying which were present in common ancestors and which were lost, and functionally characterizes the missing channels from other vertebrates.