Evolution of duplicated alpha-tubulin genes in ciliates

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1110-1122

  Israel, Rachel L ^a   Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L ^b   Muse, Spencer V ^c   Katz, Laura A ^a,d  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha tubulin genealogies; Ciliophora; Paralogy; Polymorphisms; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; EVOLUTION; GENE;

CHILODONELLA; CHILODONELLA UNCINATA; CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES CRASSUS; HALTERIA GRANDINELLA; INVERTEBRATA; MONEUPLOTES CRASSUS; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; STYLONYCHIA; STYLONYCHIA LEMNAE;

TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TUBULIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035989021     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01425.x     Document Type: Article

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