The amphioxus rab GDP-dissociation inhibitor (GDI) gene is neural- specific: Implications for the evolution of chordate rab GDI genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1231-1237

  Sedlacek, Zdenek ^a,b   Shimeld, Sebastian M ^c   Münstermann, Ewald ^a   Poustka, Annemarie ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Ancestral function; Duplication; Expression pattern; Neural specific; rab GDI; Vertebrate evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHORDATA; HEDGEHOG; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AVES; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; ERINACEIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032870074     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026213     Document Type: Article

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