Amphioxus type I keratin cDNA and the evolution of intermediate filament genes

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 50-56

  Luke, Graham N ^a   Holland, Peter W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDNA LIBRARY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT GENE; KERATIN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS); XENOPUS;

EID: 0033561277     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19990415)285:1<50::AID-JEZ6>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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