Comparative and evolutionary analysis of genes encoding small GTPases and their activating proteins in eukaryotic genomes

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-251

  Jiang, Shu Ye ^a   Ramachandran, Srinivasan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Divergence; Duplication; Gene expansion; Genome wide analysis; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ONCOGENE RAS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; RICE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENOME; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33645769516     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00210.2005     Document Type: Article

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