The analysis of genomic structures in the L1 family of cell adhesion molecules provides no evidence for exon shuffling events after the separation of arthropod and chordate lineages

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-55

  Zhao, Guangyan ^a   Hortsch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolution; Exon shuffling; Genome; Intron; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHORDATA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CHICKENS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; INTRONS; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; GALLUS GALLUS; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032541017     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00273-X     Document Type: Article

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