The design of silk fiber composition in moths has been conserved for more than 150 million years

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-53

  Yonemura, Naoyuki ^a,b   Sehnal, František ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coordinated gene evolution; Diversity of protein domains; Fibroin; Insects; Lepidoptera; Protein polymers; Silk

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FIBROIN; HEAVY CHAIN FIBROIN; LIGHT CHAIN FIBROIN; PROTEIN P25; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; EVOLUTION; FIBER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; SATURNIIDAE; SILK; STRENGTH; YPONOMEUTA EVONYMELLA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIBROINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SILK; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TIME;

LEPIDOPTERA; SATURNIIDAE; YPONOMEUTA EVONYMELLUS;

EID: 33745594033     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0119-y     Document Type: Article

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