The involucrin gene of the tree shrew: Recent repeat additions and the relocation of cysteine codons

Gene

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-34

  Phillips, Marjorie ^a   Rice, Robert H ^a   Djian, Philippe ^b   Green, Howard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene conversion; Protein evolution; Tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; INVOLUCRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDENTIA; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; CYSTEINE; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUPAIA;

ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; CANIS; MAMMALIA; MYOXUS; PRIMATES; RATTUS; SCANDENTIA; TUPAIA; TUPAIA GLIS;

EID: 0031050966     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00654-3     Document Type: Article

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