Sequence features and evolutionary mechanisms in the chicken avidin gene family

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 734-741

  Ahlroth, Mervi K ^a   Grapputo, Alessandro ^a   Laitinen, Olli H ^a   Kulomaa, Markku S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Avidin; Biotin binding; Conversion bias; Crossing over; Evolution; Gene conversion; Gene family; Inversion; Recombination

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; AVIDIN RELATED PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; BIOTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; EXON; FUSION GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034810743     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5163     Document Type: Article

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