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BMC Plant Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access A systematic search for positive selection in higher plants (Embryophytes) Christian Roth1,2,3 and David A Liberles*1,3 Address: 1Computational Biology Unit, BCCS, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway, 2Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden and 3Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Dept. 3944, 1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA Email: Christian Roth - chregu@ii.uib.no; David A Liberles* - liberles@ * Corresponding author Published: 19 June 2006 Received: 23 February 2006 Accepted: 19 June 2006 BMC Plant Biology 2006, 6:12 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-6-12 This article is available from: /1471-2229/6/12 © 2006 Roth and Liberles; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Previously, a database characterizing examples of Embryophyte gene family lineages showing evidence of positive selection was reported. Of the gene family trees, 138 Embryophyte branches showed Ka/Ks1 and are candidates for functional adaptation. The database and these examples have now been studied in further detail to better understand the molecular basis for plant genome evolution. Results: Neutral modeling showed an e