Functional constraints of the Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase in species of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup and phylogenetic analysis

• Published in: Journal of molecular evolution Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 745 - 756
• Main Authors: Arhontaki, Kyriaki, Eliopoulos, Elias, Goulielmos, George, Kastanis, Petros, Tsakas, Spyros, Loukas, Michael, Ayala, Francisco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Springer Nature B.V 01.12.2002
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Amino acids; Animals; Base Sequence; DNA; Drosophila melanogaster - enzymology; Enzymes; Evolutionary biology; Insects; Molecular biology; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; Population genetics; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Species Specificity; Superoxide Dismutase - genetics; Superoxide Dismutase - metabolism; Topology; Zinc

The phylogenetic relationships among the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup species were analyzed using approximately 1550-nucleotide-long sequences of the Cu,Zn SOD gene. Phylogenetic analysis was performed using separately the whole region and the intron sequences of the gene. The resulting phylogen...