Evolution of orthologous intronless and intron-bearing globin genes in two insect species

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 499-508

  Gruhl, Mary ^a   Kao, Wen Yen ^b   Bergtrom, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Insect globin; Maximum parsimony; Molecular evolution; Multigene families; Neutral evolution; Retroposon; SINE; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLOBIN GENE; INSECT; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIRONOMIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, INSECT; GLOBINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI THUMMI; INSECTA;

EID: 0030728952     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006254     Document Type: Article

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