Interspecies comparison of a gene pair with partially redundant function: The rst and kirre genes in D. virilis and D. melanogaster

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-197

  Strünkelnberg, Martin ^a   De Couet, H Gert ^b   Hertenstein, Alexander ^a   Fischbach, Karl Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

D. melanogaster; D. virilis; Evolution; Gene duplication; Interspecies comparison; Kirre; Redundancy; Rst

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EXON; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; INTRON; KIRRE GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RST GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE DUPLICATION; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037309995     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2393-2     Document Type: Article

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