Adaptive functional divergence among triplicated α-globin genes in rodents

Genetics

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1623-1638

  Storz, Jay F ^a   Hoffmann, Federico G ^a   Opazo, Juan C ^a,c   Moriyama, Hideaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; AMINO ACID; HEMOGLOBIN ALPHA CHAIN; GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; ISOPROTEIN;

ALTITUDE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL LINEAGE; CODON; ERYTHROCYTE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PARALOGY; PEROMYSCUS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; DUPLICATE GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETICS; GUINEA PIG; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENOME; GLOBINS; GUINEA PIGS; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROGEN BONDING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 45149104839     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.080903     Document Type: Article

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