The evolution of hexapod engrailed-family genes: Evidence for conservation and concerted evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1595, 2006, Pages 1733-1742

  Peel, Andrew D ^a   Telford, Maximilian J ^b   Akam, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concerted evolution; Engrailed; Gene conversion; Gene duplication; Hexapoda; Invected

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BEETLE; CLONE; CONSERVATION; EVOLUTION; GENE; GRASSHOPPER; LOCUST; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRASSHOPPER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIBOLIUM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; SCHISTOCERCA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, INSECT; GRASSHOPPERS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 33747397975     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3497     Document Type: Article

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