The genomic environment around the Aromatase gene: Evolutionary insights

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Castro, L Filipe C ^a   Santos, Miguel M ^a   Reis Henriques, Maria A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOPTERYGII; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; HOMO SAPIENS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; TETRAODON NIGROVIRIDIS; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

AROMATASE; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATALYSIS; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DUPLICATE GENE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TETRAODONTIFORMES; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CATALYSIS; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TETRAODONTIFORMES; XENOPUS;

EID: 25444529171     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-43     Document Type: Article

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