An exploration of the role of pseudogenes in variation generation – DGF1 family

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from ", biologically-inspired modelling of genomic variation generation in surface proteins of "</p><p>http://www.kinetoplastids.com/content/6/1/6</p><p>Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease 2007;6():6-6.</p><p>Published online 10 Jul 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1965468.</p><p></p> The continuous and dotted-line curves represent the simulation results from variation generation models based on intra-family gene sequence exchange only (pseudogenes were not included in the gene conversion events) and through gene conversion with pseudogenes (with SGR), respectively. The upper panel displays results when the simulations were conducted with mr = 0.0005. The lower panel shows a close up view of results under mr = 0.01