The family of Caenorhabditis elegans tyrosine kinase receptors: Similarities and differences with mammalian receptors

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1026-1039

  Popovici, Cornel ^a,b   Roubin, Régine ^a   Coulier, François ^a   Pontarotti, Pierre ^a   Birnbaum, Daniel ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; MAMMAL; METAZOON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032703582     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.9.11.1026     Document Type: Article

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