Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1297-1305

  Keeling, Patrick J ^a   Doolittle, W Ford ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

alpha tubulin; evolution; Heterolobosea; Microsporidia; Parabasalia; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MICROSPORA; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACRASIS ROSEA; ANIMALIA; ANTONOSPORA LOCUSTAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HETEROLOBOSEA; MICROSPORIDIA; MONOCERCOMONAS SP.; NOSEMA; PARABASALIDEA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPRAGUEA LOPHII; TRICHOMITUS BATRACHORUM;

EID: 0029908930     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025576     Document Type: Article

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