Dynamic rearrangement within the Antheraea pernyi silk fibroin gene is associated with four types of repetitive units

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 329-338

  Sezutsu, Hideki ^a   Yukuhiro, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antheraea pernyi; Chi sequence; Coding minisatellite sequence; Nonpolyalanine block (NPAB); Polyalanine block (PAB); Rearrangement by duplications; Repetitive motifs; Silk fibroin

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; SILK FIBROIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC STABILITY; INTRON; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CODON; DNA, INTERGENIC; EXONS; FIBROINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ANTHERAEA PERNYI; BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA;

EID: 0033759526     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010095     Document Type: Article

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