Patterns of gene duplication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-37

  Cavalcanti, Andre R O ^a,b   Ferreira, Ricardo ^b   Gu, Zhenglong ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Block duplication; Database cleaning; Gene duplication; Protein families; Whole genome duplication

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ORDER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037227553     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2377-2     Document Type: Article

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