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A Cladistic Analysis of the Evolutionary Relationships of the Members of the Tyrosinase Gene Family Using Sequence Data
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机译：A Cladistic Analysis of the Evolutionary Relationships of the Members of the Tyrosinase Gene Family Using Sequence Data
Recently, DNA sequence data have been published on tyrosinase and tyrosinase‐related proteins (TRPs) in a wide variety of vertebrates ranging fromRanatoHomo.These proteins are in turn members of a larger family of binuclear copper‐binding proteins, which all contain two highly conserved copper‐binding domains. This gene family also includes tyrosinases from fungi and bacteria as well as arthropodan and molluscan hemocyanins. Parsimony‐based alignment and tree construction algorithms (Malign, vl.85 and PAUP, 3.1.1) were used to analyze the diversification of both the evolutionarily conserved copper‐binding domains i6n copper‐binding proteins in general as well as the diversification of the vertebrate tyrosinase gene family more specifically. These analyses show that the diversification of the vertebrate tyrosinase gene family minimally predates the diversification of vertebrates. Vertebrate tyrosinases proper first diverged from an ancestral tyrosinase‐related protein (TRP) that then subsequently diverged to form tyrosinase‐related protein‐Is (TRP‐1s) and tyrosinase‐relate
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