The evolution of GABAA receptor-like genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 599-610

  Tsang, Shui Ying ^a   Ng, Siu Kin ^a   Xu, Zhiwen ^a   Xue, Hong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bilaterian ancestral genes; Comparative genomics; Evolution; GABAA receptors; Gene structure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; GENE PRODUCT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BINDING KINETICS; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTRON; INVERTEBRATE; LIGAND BINDING; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; VERTEBRATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BILATERIA; CIONA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, GABA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 33846817209     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl188     Document Type: Article

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