Rapid bursts of androgen-binding protein (Abp) gene duplication occurred independently in diverse mammals

Abstract

Abp genes have undergone repeated bursts of gene duplication and adaptive sequence diversification

Keywords

• multiple sequence alignment
• hidden markov-models
• major cat allergen
• in-house mice
• sexual isolation
• mus-musculus
• evolutionary relationships
• molecular phylogeny
• domestic cat
• mouse genome