A general tendency for conservation of protein length across eukaryotic kingdoms

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 142-147

  Wang, Daryi ^a   Hsieh, Mufen ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Eukaryotes; Orthologous proteins; Paralogous proteins; Protein evolution; Protein length

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSPOSON; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 10344219973     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh263     Document Type: Article

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