Identification of novel human genes evolutionarily conserved in Caenorhabditis elegans by comparative proteomics

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 703-713

  Lai, Chun Hung ^a   Chou, Chang Yuan ^a   Ch'ang, Lan Yang ^a   Liu, Chung Shyan ^b   Lin, Wen Chang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA TEMPLATE; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0034029917     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.5.703     Document Type: Article

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