Natural Twist protein varaints in a panel of eleven non-human primates: Possible implications of twist gene-free for primate species-tree

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 496-503

  Gachot Neveu, Hélène ^a   Stoetzel, Corinne ^b   Quillet, Renaud ^b   Dollfus, Hélène ^b   Perrin Schmitt, Fabienne ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Molecular evolution; Non human primates; Twist coding sequence

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MARKER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0036934916     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0263-y     Document Type: Article

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