Alternative starts of transcription, several paralogues, and almost-fixed interspecific differences of the gene fruitless in a hemimetabolous insect

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 788-800

  Ustinova, Jana ^a   Mayer, Frieder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birth and death evolution; Chorthippus; Concerted evolution; fruitless; Orthoptera

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FRU GENE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRASSHOPPER; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, INSECT; GRASSHOPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CHORTHIPPUS; CHORTHIPPUS BIGUTTULUS; CHORTHIPPUS BRUNNEUS; CHORTHIPPUS MOLLIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 33845368148     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-6230-2     Document Type: Article

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