A comparison of homologous developmental genes from Drosophilia and Tribolium reveals major differences in length and trinucleotide repeat content

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 558-566

  Schmid, Karl J ^a   Tautz, Diethard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA binding domain; Drosophila melanogaster; Effective number of codons; Homopolymeric cluster; Protein length; Transcription factor; Tribolium castaneum; Trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUTAMINE; PROLINE; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CODON USAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRIBOLIUM; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 0033278642     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006577     Document Type: Article

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