Experimental indication in favor of the introns-late theory: The receptor tyrosine kinase gene from the sponge Geodia cydonium

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 242-252

  Gamulin, Vera ^a   Skorokhod, Alexander ^b,c   Kavsan, Vadim ^b   Müller, Isabel M ^c   Müller, Werner E G ^c  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Ukraine)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geodia cydonium; Metazoan protein molecules; Sponge

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; GEODIA CYDONIUM; METAZOA; PORIFERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031036989     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006141     Document Type: Article

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