Rapid divergence in the course of Drosophila evolution reveals structural important domains of the Notch antagonist Hairless

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 155-164

  Marquart, Jörg ^a   Alexief Damianof, Christos ^a   Preiss, Anette ^a   Maier, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antagonist; Evolution; Hairless; Notch pathway; Orthologue

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA HYDEI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; HAIR; HYBRIDIZATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033012867     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050239     Document Type: Article

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