Comparative genomics and concerted evolution of β-tubulin paralogs in Leishmania spp

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jackson, Andrew P ^a,b   Vaughan, Sue ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; ISOPROTEIN;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 33; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PUBLISHING; REGULATOR GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33747003223     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-137     Document Type: Article

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