Accelerated evolution of nervous system genes in the origin of Homo sapiens

Cell

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1027-1040

  Dorus, Steve ^a   Vallender, Eric J ^a   Evans, Patrick D ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey R ^a   Gilbert, Sandra L ^a   Mahowald, Michael ^a   Wyckoff, Gerald J ^a   Malcom, Christine M ^a   Lahn, Bruce T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALIA; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 11144331051     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.11.040     Document Type: Article

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