Functional divergence in the caspase gene family and altered functional constraints: Statistical analysis and prediction

Genetics

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1311-1320

  Wang, Y ^a   Gu, X ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CYTOKINE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CASPASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034922711     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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