Recent origin of a hominoid-specific splice form of neuropsin, a gene involved in learning and memory

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2111-2115

  Li, Yi ^a,c,d   Qian, Ya Ping ^b   Yu, Xiao Jing ^a   Wang, Yin Qiu ^a   Dong, Ding Gui ^e   Sun, Wei ^e   Ma, Run Mei ^f   Su, Bing ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c QUJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e First People's Hospital of Qujing   (China)

^f KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cognition; Hominoid; Molecular evolution; Neuropsin

Indexed keywords

NEUROPSIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIMATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CERCOPITHECIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PONGO PYGMAEUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 6344269711     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh220     Document Type: Article

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