title: Testing claims of gene conversion between multigene family members: examples from echinoderm actin genes.
abstract: Molecular genetics studies often infer the occurrence of gene conversion events based on simple sequence similarity observations that do not include any statistical analyses. I show that the statistical significance of two previously proposed gene conversion events can easily be tested and point out that a variety of methods are available to perform gene conversion analyses.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Drouin
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D003600:Cytosol; D004447:Echinodermata / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005785:Gene Conversion; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics*; D009132:Muscles
chemical_list: D000199:Actins