Parallel adaptive origins of digestive RNases in Asian and African leaf monkeys

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 819-823

  Zhang, Jianzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASIA; COLOBINAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANCREAS; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

TRACHYPITHECUS;

EID: 33745543629     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1812     Document Type: Article

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