Evolution of discrete Notch-like receptors from a distant gene duplication in Caenorhabditis

Evolution and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 319-333

  Rudel, David ^a,b   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE; NEMATODE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0036744133     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2002.02027.x     Document Type: Article

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