The Dscam homologue of the crustacean Daphnia is diversified by alternative splicing like in insects

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1429-1439

  Brites, Daniela ^a   McTaggart, Seanna ^b   Morris, Krystalynne ^c   Anderson, Jobriah ^c   Thomas, Kelley ^c   Colson, Isabelle ^a   Fabbro, Thomas ^a   Little, Tom J ^b   Ebert, Dieter ^a   Du Pasquier, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Dscam evolution; Immunity; Immunoglobulin domains; Nervous system; Somatic diversity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; DOWN SYNDROME CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DOWN SYNDROME; EFFECTOR CELL; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INSECT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45849094709     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn087     Document Type: Article

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