Evolution of the Highly Repetitive PEVK Region of Titin Across Mammals

The protein titin plays a key role in vertebrate muscle where it acts like a giant molecular spring. Despite its importance and conservation over vertebrate evolution, a lack of high quality annotations in non-model species makes comparative evolutionary studies of titin challenging. The PEVK region...

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Main Authors: Kathleen Muenzen, Jenna Monroy, Findley R. Finseth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019-04-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
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Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.118.200714