Evolutionary analysis for functional divergence of the toll-like receptor gene family and altered functional constraints

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-123

  Zhou, Huaijun ^a   Gu, Jianying ^a   Lamont, Susan J ^a   Gu, Xun ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional divergence; Gene duplication; Phylogenetic tree; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LEUCINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548534411     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0008-4     Document Type: Article

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