The prion protein and New World primate phylogeny

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 505-510

  Schneider, Igor ^a   Schneider, Horacio ^a   Schneider, Maria Paula ^a   Silva, Artur ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Molecular phylogeny; New World monkeys; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE; PRION PROTEIN; SERINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALOUATTA; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BETA SHEET; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOPHYLY; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALOUATTA; BRACHYTELES; CACAJAO; CALLITHRIX; CHIROPOTES; LAGOTHRIX; LEONTOPITHECUS; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS;

EID: 11344286749     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572004000400007     Document Type: Article

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