Modular genes with metazoan-specific domains have increased tissue specificity

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 210-213

  Cohen Gihon, Inbar ^a   Lancet, Doron ^a   Yanai, Itai ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; METABOLISM; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

METAZOA;

EID: 15244345657     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.02.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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