Sequence gaps join mice and men: Phylogenetic evidence from deletions in two proteins [4]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2035-2037

  Poux, Celine ^a   Van Rheede, Teun ^a   Madsen, Ole ^a   De Jong, Wilfried W ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deletions; Euarchontoglires; Glires; Insertions; Phylogeny; Primates

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PRNP GENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCA1 GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

AMYLOID; ATAXIN 1; ATAXIN-1; INFECTIOUS AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PRNP PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRNP PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PRIONS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036853613     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004028     Document Type: Letter

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