Sequential loss of two neighboring exons of the tropoelastin gene during primate evolution

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 664-671

  Szabó, Zoltán ^a   Levi Minzi, Simona A ^a   Christiano, Angela M ^a   Struminger, Carole ^a   Stoneking, Mark ^b   Batzer, Mark A ^c   Boyd, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu repeat sequences; Gene evolution; Tropoelastin gene

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TROPOELASTIN;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COW; EXON; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIMATE; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033278850     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006587     Document Type: Article

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