Evolutionary history and mechanism of the Drosophila Cecropin gene family

Immunogenetics

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 417-429

  Date, Atsuko ^a   Satta, Yoko ^b   Takahata, Naoyuki ^b   Chigusa, Sadao I ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibacterial peptides; Gene turnover; Intragenic recombination; Introgression

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CECROPIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; PEREGRINA; SARCOPHAGA PEREGRINA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031958874     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050379     Document Type: Article

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