Expanded HOXA13 polyalanine tracts in a monotreme

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-438

  Lehoczky, Jessica A ^a,b   Innis, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEOBOX PROTEIN HOXA13; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYALANINE;

CLADISTICS; HOMINID; MAMMAL; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECHIDNA; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ECHIDNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA; TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 47249092746     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00254.x     Document Type: Article

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