Relative rates of gene fusion and fission in multi-domain proteins

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-30

  Kummerfeld, Sarah K ^a   Teichmann, Sarah A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 13144259695     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.11.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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