The β-tubulin gene family of pea: Primary structures, genomic organization and intron-dependent evolution of genes

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 639-651

  Liaud, Marie Françoise ^a   Brinkmann, Henner ^a   Cerff, Rüdiger ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

dispensable proteins; evolutionary rates; exon theory of genes; homologous recombination; intron shift; multigene family

Indexed keywords

DNA; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; INTRON; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOZOON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; FUNGI; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROTOZOA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUBULIN;

EID: 0026813040     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00020007     Document Type: Article

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