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Kent State University |
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Bioinformatics, Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics |
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Dr. Helen Piontkivska |
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Selected Publications Hughes AL, Piontkivska H. (2005) DNA repeat arrays in chicken and human genomes and the adaptive evolution of avian genome size. BMC Evol Biol. 2005 Feb 4;5(1):12 Piontkivska H. (2004) Efficiencies of maximum likelihood methods of phylogenetic inferences when different substitution models are used. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 31 (1): 865-873 Piontkivska H., Y. Zhang, E.D. Green and L. Elnitski. (2004) Multi-species sequence comparison reveals dynamic evolution of the elastin gene that has involved purifying selection and lineage-specific insertions/deletions. BMC Genomics 5(1): 31 Piontkivska H. and M. Nei. (2003) Birth-and-death Evolution in Primate MHC Class I Genes: Divergence Time Estimates. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20 (4): 601-609 Piontkivska H. and A.L. Hughes. (2003) Evolution of Vertebrate Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Alfa Chains by Sequential Gene Duplication. J.Mol.Evol. 56 (3): 277-285 Piontkivska H., A.P. Rooney and M. Nei. (2002) Purifying Selection and Birth-and-death Evolution in the Histone H4 Gene Family. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19 (5): 689-697 Nei M., I.B. Rogozin, and H. Piontkivska (2000) Purifying Selection and Birth-and-death Evolution in the Ubiquitin Gene Family. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97(20): 10866-10871 |