Molecular characterization and evolution of the repeating units of histone genes in Drosophila americana: Coexistence of quartet and quintet units in a genome

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 713-717

  Nagoda, N ^a,b   Fukuda, A ^a   Nakashima, Y ^a,c   Matsuo, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Histone multigene family; Quartet unit; Quintet unit

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA AMERICANA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS;

HISTONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, INSECT; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645248651     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2005.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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