| Title |
Relaxation of Selective Constraints Causes Independent Selenoprotein Extinction in Insect Genomes
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0002968 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Charles E. Chapple, Roderic Guigó |
| Abstract |
Selenoproteins are a diverse family of proteins notable for the presence of the 21st amino acid, selenocysteine. Until very recently, all metazoan genomes investigated encoded selenoproteins, and these proteins had therefore been believed to be essential for animal life. Challenging this assumption, recent comparative analyses of insect genomes have revealed that some insect genomes appear to have lost selenoprotein genes. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Moldova, Republic of | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 44 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 28% |
| Researcher | 6 | 12% |
| Professor | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 10 | 20% |
| Unknown | 9 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 29 | 58% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 12% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 4% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 14% |