Molecular mechanisms of selector gene function and evolution

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 592-600

  Mann, Richard S ^a   Carroll, Sean B ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; SELECTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036777881     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(02)00344-1     Document Type: Review

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