Accelerated protein evolution and origins of human-specific features: FOXP2 as an example

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1825-1835

  Zhang, Jianzhi ^a   Webb, David M ^a   Podlaha, Ondrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; GENE; GENE FOXP2; GENE PRM2; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTAMINES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0036959262     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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