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Structure and Evolution of Genes Encoding Polyubiquitin in Marine Sponges

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Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa

Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology ((PMSB,volume 21))

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Molecular biology, with its rapid advances in new techniques, has drastically influenced evolutionary investigations and a new field, molecular evolution, was recently established. In the previous period traditional evolutionary biologists based their investigations upon comparative anatomy, embryology and paleontology. The recognition of the enormous phylogenetic information in nucleotide (nt) and amino acid (aa) sequences directed the efforts of molecular evolutionists toward the extraction and analysis of that information. Comparative analysis of conserved genes (proteins) in different contemporary organisms provides information about ancient events in nature and greatly facilitates reconstruction of the biological history of the living world. The nature of the first common ancestor of all living organisms is one of the central, still unsolved problems in biology.

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Gamulin, V., Lukic, L. (1998). Structure and Evolution of Genes Encoding Polyubiquitin in Marine Sponges. In: Müller, W.E.G. (eds) Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72236-3_8

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