Changes in body temperature pattern in vertebrates do not influence the codon usages of α-globin genes

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 197-207

  Hamada, Kazuo ^a   Horiike, Tokumasa ^a   Kanaya, Shigehiko ^b   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^a,c   Ota, Hidetoshi ^d   Yatogo, Takayuki ^a   Okada, Kazuhisa ^a   Shinozawa, Takao ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; GLOBIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BAT; BIRD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CODON USAGE; GENBANK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; ISOCHORE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; VERTEBRATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CODON; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHIROPTERA; CODON; GLOBINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SNAKES; ANIMALS;

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; ARCHOSAUROMORPHA; AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS; ELAPHE; ELAPHE CLIMACOPHORA; HYDROPHIS MELANOCEPHALUS; MAMMALIA; NAJA; NAJA KAOUTHIA; PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS ABRAMUS; SERPENTES; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036023381     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.77.197     Document Type: Article

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