Opinion piece: Exploring the early origins of the synapse by comparative genomics

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 108-111

  Kosik, Kenneth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphimedon queenslandica; Demosponge; PDZ domain; Porifera; Post synaptic scaffold proteins

Indexed keywords

CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SYNAPSE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

AMPHIMEDON; PORIFERA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 63249132795     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0594     Document Type: Note

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