Large-scale taxonomic profiling of eukaryotic model organisms: A comparison of orthologous proteins encoded by the human, fly, nematode, and yeast genomes

Genome Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 590-598

  Mushegian, Arcady R ^a   Garey, James R ^b   Martin, Jason ^a,d   Liu, Leo X ^c  

^a Axys Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NemaPharm   (United States)

^d Genos Biosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031877893     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.8.6.590     Document Type: Article

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