Origin of new genes and source for N-terminal domain of the chimerical gene, jingwei, in Drosophila

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 135-141

  Long, Manyuan ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Zhang, Jianming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimerical genes; Jgw; New gene evolution; Retroposition; Ymp; Ynd

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHIMERA; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT CHIMERIC PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

DIPLOPRION BIFASCIATUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA TEISSIERI; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032852328     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00229-2     Document Type: Article

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