Deducing the origin of soluble adenylyl cyclase, a gene lost in multiple lineages

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2239-2246

  Roelofs, Jeroen ^a   Van Haastert, Peter J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adenylyl cyclase; Dictyostelium; Evolution; Gene loss; Guanylyl cyclase

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036900083     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004047     Document Type: Article

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