A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Fedorova, Natalie D ^a   Jackson, John D ^a   Jacobs, Aviva R ^a   Krylov, Dmitri M ^a   Makarova, Kira S ^a   Mazumder, Raja ^a,b   Mekhedov, Sergei L ^a   Nikolskaya, Anastasia N ^a   Rao, B Sridhar ^a   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Smirnov, Sergei ^a   Sorokin, Alexander V ^a   Sverdlov, Alexander V ^a   Vasudevan, Sona ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Yin, Jodie J ^a   Natale, Darren A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crown Group; Eukaryotic Genome; Gene Loss; Horizontal Gene Transfer; Unicellular Eukaryote

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENOME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; YEASTS;

EID: 16444381885     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-2-r7     Document Type: Article

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