Functional constraint and divergence in the G protein family in Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 273, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 299-310

  Jovelin, Richard ^a   Phillips, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis briggsae; Caenorhabditis elegans; Divergence; G protein; Gene regulation

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMICS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; NEMATODA;

EID: 23744479098     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-004-1105-6     Document Type: Article

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