Arthropod and mollusk defensins - Evolution by exon-shuffling

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 684-687

  Froy, Oren ^a   Gurevitz, Michael ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DEFENSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTHROPOD; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; EXON; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SCORPION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; MOLLUSCA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0345724808     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2003.10.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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