Complete genomic organization of futb encoding a bovine α3- fucosyltransferase: Exons in human orthologous genes emerged from ancestral intronic sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1535-1547

  Wierinckx, Anne ^a   Mercier, Dominique ^a   Oulmouden, Ahmad ^a   Petit, Jean Michel ^a   Julien, Raymond ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Exon emergence; Fucosyltransferase; Gene evolution; Interspersed sequences

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; FUCOSYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032712714     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026066     Document Type: Article

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