Protein family expansions and biological complexity

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 370-382

  Vogel, Christine ^a,b   Chothia, Cyrus ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; GENES; PROTEINS;

BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; CELL TYPES; EXTRACELLULAR PROCESS; GENE DUPLICATIONS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LARGE CLUSTERS; MULTICELLULAR EUKARYOTES; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN FAMILY; RELATIVE SIZES;

EXPANSION;

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; EUKARYOTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEOMICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FUNGAL GENE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PLANT GENE;

EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33646909100     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020048     Document Type: Article

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