Closely linked H2B genes in the marine copepod,Tigriopus californicusindicate a recent gene duplication or gene conversion event
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in DNA Sequence
- Vol. 2 (6) , 387-396
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10425179209020818
Abstract
Two nonallelic histone gene clusters were characterized in the marine copepod, Tigriopus californicus. The DNA sequence of one of the clusters reveals six genes in the contiguous arrangement of H2B, H1, H3, H4, H2B and H2A. The order of genes within the second cluster is H3, H4, H2B and H2A. There is no evidence for the presence of an H1 gene in this cluster. Comparison of the three copepod H2B genes reveals a high degree of similarity between the 5′ upstream regions and between the amino terminal halves of the two H2B genes found within the same cluster. From these data we infer that gene duplication and/or gene conversion events occurred within this cluster in the recent past.Keywords
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