Origins and evolution of the formin multigene family that is involved in the formation of actin filaments

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2717-2733

  Chalkia, Dimitra ^a,c   Nikolaidis, Nikolas ^a,d   Makalowski, Wojciech ^b   Klein, Jan ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth and death evolution; Domain acquisition; Eukaryotes; FH2; Formin family

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; GENE DUPLICATION; MICROFILAMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 56449091356     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn215     Document Type: Article

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