Globins in nonvertebrate species: Dispersal by horizontal gene transfer and evolution of the structure-function relationships

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 324-333

  Moens, Luc ^a   Vanfleteren, Jacques ^b   Van De Peer, Yves ^a   Peeters, Kris ^a   Kapp, Oscar ^c   Czeluzniak, John ^d   Goodman, Morris ^d   Blaxter, Mark ^e   Vinogradov, Serge ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evolution; globins; horizontal gene transfer; structure

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GLOBIN; HEMOPROTEIN; QUERCETIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CILIATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GREEN ALGA; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; YEAST;

ALCALIGENES; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; ESCHERICHIA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; PARAMECIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES; TETRAHYMENA; VITREOSCILLA;

EID: 0030027631     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025592     Document Type: Article

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