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Insect Transport Protein Evolution

This is a project which is currently making use of HPC facilities at Newcastle University. It is active.

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Project Description

Research into the evolution of transport proteins in insects, focusing on the expansions of the SLC36 transport family within insects and the following divergence in transport substrate specificity.


Software or Compute Methods

Phylogenomic and phylogenetic analysis software, including gene family characterisation (iqtree2, OMA, OrthoLoger, eggnog-mapper).