Orthologs, paralogs, and evolutionary genomics

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2005, Pages 309-338

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Homolog; Ortholog; Paralog; Pseudoortholog; Pseudoparalog; Xenolog

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27644472372     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.39.073003.114725     Document Type: Review

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