Two large families of chemoreceptor genes in the nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae reveal extensive gene duplication, diversification, movement, and intron loss

Genome Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 449-463

  Robertson, Hugh M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SERPENTINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMORECEPTOR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RECEPTOR GENE;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0031804088     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.8.5.449     Document Type: Article

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