Trends in genome dynamics among major orders of insects revealed through variations in protein families.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insects belong to a class that accounts for the majority of animals on earth. With over one million identified species, insects display a huge diversity and occupy extreme environments. At present, there are dozens of fully sequenced insect genomes that cover a range of habitats, social behavior and morphologies. In view of such diverse collection of genomes, revealing evolutionary trends and charting functional relationships of proteins remain challenging.

Results

We analyzed the relatedness of 17 complete proteomes representative of proteomes from insects including louse, bee, beetle, ants, flies and mosquitoes, as well as an out-group from the crustaceans. The analyzed proteomes mostly represented the orders of Hymenoptera and Diptera. The 287,405 protein seque

SUBMITTER: Rappoport N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4528696 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature