The functional conservation of proteins in evolutionary alleles and the dominant role of enhancers in evolution

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 3722-3731

  Xue, Lei ^a   Noll, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Enhancer; Evolutionary alleles; Pax genes; Protein function

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029941393     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00742.x     Document Type: Article

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