The Evolutionary Duplication and Probable Demise of an Endodermal GATA Factor in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 575-588

  Fukushige, Tetsunari ^a,b   Goszczynski, Barbara ^a   Tian, Helen ^a   McGhee, James D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON; DNA BINDING; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE DUPLICATION; INTESTINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0242318341     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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