orthology
Americannoun
plural
orthologies-
the use of language which is seen as traditional and correct, rather than new, modern, or incorrect.
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the relationship between genes which are seen in different species and which have developed or are theorized to have developed from a common gene.
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We used an integrated approach of gene orthology clustering10 and an automated workflow for phylogenomic analyses56 to reconstruct land plant phylogeny of peptide sequences.
From Nature • Jun. 10, 2014
Protein coding gene predictions were functionally annotated based on protein signatures and orthology relationships.
From Nature • Jan. 22, 2014
In the phylogeny-based approach 15,263 one-to-one orthology relationships between Beta vulgaris genes and GO-annotated genes of other plant species were inferred from trees in the sugar beet phylome.
From Nature • Jan. 22, 2014
Second, 110 gene families with high-confidence one-to-one orthology in at least 9 of the 10 species were used to perform a multi-gene phylogenetic analysis.
From Nature • Jan. 22, 2014
This file contains table ST8.1:Ensembl protein primate orthology status.
From Nature • Mar. 7, 2012
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