Molecular Evolutionary Characterization of the Mussel Mytilus Histone Multigene Family: First Record of a Tandemly Repeated Unit of Five Histone Genes Containing an H1 Subtype with "Orphon" Features

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-144

  Eirín López, José M ^a   Ruiz, M Fernanda ^b   González Tizón, Ana M ^a   Martínez, Andrés ^a   Sánchez, Lucas ^b   Méndez, Josefina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

"Orphon" genes; Copy number; FISH; Histone gene quintets; Mussel Mytilus; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIVALVIA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE COMPONENTS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HISTONES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 0842290968     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2531-5     Document Type: Article

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