Purifying selection and birth-and-death evolution in the histone H4 gene family

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 689-697

  Piontkivska, Helen ^a   Rooney, Alejandro P ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth and death evolution; Concerted evolution; Histone H4; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROTEIN; HISTONE H4; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROTISTA;

EID: 0036094816     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004127     Document Type: Article

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