Evolutionary insights into the unique electromotility motor of mammalian outer hair cells

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-315

  Okoruwa, Oseremen E ^a   Weston, Michael D ^a   Sanjeevi, Divvya C ^a   Millemon, Amanda R ^a   Fritzsch, Bernd ^a   Hallworth, Richard ^a   Beisel, Kirk W ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; SLC26A5 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; HAIR; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE; MOTILITY; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; THERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 43249130400     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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