The origin of the jingwei gene and the complex modular structure of its parental gene, yellow emperor, in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1294-1301

  Wang, Wen ^a   Zhang, Jianming ^a   Alvarez, Carlos ^b   Llopart, Ana ^a   Long, Manyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Exon shuffling; Nested gene; Origin of new genes

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033850591     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026413     Document Type: Article

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