Amino acid repeats cause extraordinary coding sequence variation in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

Amino acid repeats cause extraordinary coding sequence variation in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

Protein sequences are normally the most conserved elements of genomes owing to purifying selection to maintain their functions. We document an extraordinary amount of within-species protein sequence variation in the model eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum stemming from triplet DNA repeats coding fo...

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Main Authors: Clea Scala, Xiangjun Tian, Natasha J Mehdiabadi, Margaret H Smith, Gerda Saxer, Katie Stephens, Prince Buzombo, Joan E Strassmann, David C Queller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3460934?pdf=render

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