The members of the RH gene family (RH50 and RH30) followed different evolutionary pathways

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-159

  Matassi, Giorgio ^a   Chérif Zahar, Baya ^a   Pesole, Graziano ^b   Raynal, Virginie ^a   Cartron, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Divergence time; Gene duplication; Nucleotide substitution rate; Rh antigenic complex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIMATES; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032901097     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006453     Document Type: Article

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