TY - JOUR AU - Chu, Shanshan AU - Wang, Jiao AU - Cheng, Hao AU - Yang, Qing AU - Yu, Deyue PY - 2014 DA - 2014/06/24 TI - Evolutionary study of the isoflavonoid pathway based on multiple copies analysis in soybean JO - BMC Genetics SP - 76 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Previous studies suggest that the metabolic pathway structure influences the selection and evolution rates of involved genes. However, most of these studies have exclusively considered a single gene copy encoding each enzyme in the metabolic pathway. Considering multiple-copy encoding enzymes could provide direct evidence of gene evolution and duplication patterns in metabolic pathways. We conducted a detailed analysis of the phylogeny, synteny, evolutionary rate and selection pressure of the genes in the isoflavonoid metabolic pathway of soybeans. SN - 1471-2156 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-15-76 DO - 10.1186/1471-2156-15-76 ID - Chu2014 ER -