Protein dispensability and rate of evolution

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6841, 2001, Pages 1046-1049

  Hirsh, Aaron E ^a   Fraser, Hunter B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEORY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOASSAY; GENES; PURIFICATION; YEAST;

PROTEIN DISPENSABILITY;

PROTEINS;

EID: 0035963414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35082561     Document Type: Letter

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