Structural analysis of a hmg-coA-reductase pseudogene: Insights into evolutionary processes affecting the hmgr gene family in allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

Current Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 241-249

  Loguercio, Leandro L ^a,b   Wilkins, Thea A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMBRAPA MILHO E SORGO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene family; Gossypium spp.; hmg coA reductase; Retro pseudogene

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; COTTON; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GOSSYPIUM; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLOIDIES; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031754848     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050393     Document Type: Article

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