Mammalian Housekeeping Genes Evolve More Slowly than Tissue-Specific Genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 236-239

  Zhang, Liqing ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

And genetic redundancy; Mutational bias; Nonsynonymous rates; Selective constraint; Synonymous rates; Tissue specific

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1542286776     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh010     Document Type: Article

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