The nuclear receptor superfamily has undergone extensive proliferation and diversification in nematodes

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-120

  Sluder, Ann E ^a   Mathews, Siuyien Wong ^a,c   Hough, David ^b   Yin, Viravuth P ^b,d   Maina, Claude V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 5; DNA BINDING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; NEMATODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033053181     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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