Whole-Gene Positive Selection, Elevated Synonymous Substitution Rates, Duplication, and Indel Evolution of the Chloroplast clpP1 Gene

Per Erixon; Bengt Oxelman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001386

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Whole-Gene Positive Selection, Elevated Synonymous Substitution Rates, Duplication, and Indel Evolution of the Chloroplast clpP1 Gene

Per Erixon ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: per.erixon@ebc.uu.se

Affiliations Department of Systematic Botany, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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Bengt Oxelman

Affiliations Department of Systematic Botany, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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Whole-Gene Positive Selection, Elevated Synonymous Substitution Rates, Duplication, and Indel Evolution of the Chloroplast clpP1 Gene

Per Erixon,
Bengt Oxelman

Published: January 2, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001386

About the Authors

Per Erixon

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: per.erixon@ebc.uu.se

Affiliations Department of Systematic Botany, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

Bengt Oxelman

Affiliations Department of Systematic Botany, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PE BO. Performed the experiments: PE. Analyzed the data: PE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PE BO. Wrote the paper: PE BO.

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