The large srh family of chemoreceptor genes in Caenorhabditis nematodes reveals processes of genome evolution involving large duplications and deletions and intron gains and losses

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 192-203

  Robertson, Hugh M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HELMINTH DNA; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PSEUDOGENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMORECEPTORS; DNA, HELMINTH; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 0034049664     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.2.192     Document Type: Article

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