Ancestry and diversity of BEL1-like homeobox genes revealed by gymnosperm (Gnetum gnemon) homologs

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 452-457

  Becker, Annette ^a,c   Bey, Melanie ^a,c   Bürglin, Thomas R ^b   Saedler, Heinz ^a   Theissen, Günter ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

BEL1; Evolution; Gnetum gnemon; Homeobox; TALE homeodomain

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN BEL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GYMNOSPERM; HOMEOBOX; OVULE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GNETUM; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; GNETUM; GNETUM GNEMON; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0036938016     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0259-7     Document Type: Article

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