Improvisation in evolution of genes and genomes: whose structure is it anyway?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-381

  Shakhnovich, Boris E ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; PROTEINS;

EID: 44949085337     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2008.02.007     Document Type: Review

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