Selective Pressure on the Allantoicase Gene during Vertebrate Evolution

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 650-658

  Vigetti, Davide ^a   Binelli, Giorgio ^a   Monetti, Claudio ^a   Prati, Mariangela ^a   Bernardini, Giovanni ^a   Gornati, Rosalba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allantoicase; Allantoin; Purine degradation; Uricolysis

Indexed keywords

ALLANTOICASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; URIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CATABOLISM; CODING; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EXON; GENETIC SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NONSYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PURINE METABOLISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UREOHYDROLASES; VERTEBRATES;

AMNIOTA; AMPHIBIA; ASCIDIACEA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347365740     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2515-5     Document Type: Article

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