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| Title |
Relaxation of Selective Constraints Causes Independent Selenoprotein Extinction in Insect Genomes
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0002968 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Charles E. Chapple, Roderic Guigó |
| Abstract |
Selenoproteins are a diverse family of proteins notable for the presence of the 21st amino acid, selenocysteine. Until very recently, all metazoan genomes investigated encoded selenoproteins, and these proteins had therefore been believed to be essential for animal life. Challenging this assumption, recent comparative analyses of insect genomes have revealed that some insect genomes appear to have lost selenoprotein genes. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 50 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Moldova, Republic of | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 44 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 28% |
| Researcher | 6 | 12% |
| Professor | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 10 | 20% |
| Unknown | 9 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 29 | 58% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 12% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 4% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2012.
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#12,863,576
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#100,139
of 193,651 outputs
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#67,330
of 82,178 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#369
of 441 outputs
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