The Evolution of Insect Metallothioneins
M. Luo, C. Finet, H. Cong, H.-y. Wei, H. Chung
This study reconstructs the evolutionary history of insect metallothioneins by developing a BLAST pipeline and analyzing phylogenetics and synteny, revealing lineage-specific duplications and a previously unknown MT variant.
bioRxiv · Jun 25, 2020Evolutionary Biology