The origin of genes could be polyphyletic

Gene

Volumn 426, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 39-46

  Di Giulio, Massimo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacteria; Eukarya; LUCA; Motifs of the domains of life; Trans splicing

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYPHYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 54049122120     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.07.024     Document Type: Article

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