Genome Evolution Course – 2011

Evolution by Protein Domains

 

 

1.      Presentation: PPTX or PDF

Essay version (from 2009 version of course)


Topics

  1. Protein domains are structural units
  2. Protein domains are distinct evolutionary units
  3. Domains at the sequence level
  4. The size of the protein universe
  5. Promiscuous domains

Suggested reading

·         The genome of the choanoflagellate, the closest known relatives of metazoans.

 

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Itai Yanai, yanai@technion.ac.il