Dystrophins in vertebrates and invertebrates

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 589-595

  Roberts, Roland G ^a,b   Bobrow, Martin ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROBREVIN; DYSTROPHIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOGFISH; DYSTROPHIN; DYSTROPHIN-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TORPEDO; UTROPHIN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031947501     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.4.589     Document Type: Article

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