Human and nematode orthologs - Lessons from the analysis of 1800 human genes and the proteome of Caenorhabditis elegans

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 163-170

  Wheelan, Sarah J ^a,b   Boguski, Mark S ^a   Duret, Laurent ^c   Makalowski, Wojciech ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CALCINEURIN; ELONGATION FACTOR; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PROTEOME; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032835248     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00298-X     Document Type: Article

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