Phylogenetic analysis of the vertebrate galectin family

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1177-1187

  Houzelstein, Denis ^a   Gonçalves, Isabelle R ^a   Fadden, Andrew J ^b   Sidhu, Sukhvinder S ^a,e   Cooper, Douglas N W ^c   Drickamer, Kurt ^b   Leffler, Hakon ^d   Poirier, Françoise ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chordate; Evolution; Galectin; Lgals; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; GALECTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHORDATA; EXON; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; LGALS GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GALECTINS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

CHORDATA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042643773     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh082     Document Type: Article

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