Complex evolution of a Y-chromosomal double homeobox 4 (DUX4)-related gene family in hominoids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Schmidt, Julia ^a   Kirsch, Stefan ^a   Rappold, Gudrun A ^b   Schempp, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE HOMEOBOX 4; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DUX4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOSSIL HOMINOID; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HAPLORHINI; HOMINID; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PAN TROGLODYTES;

HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; HYLOBATIDAE; PAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 65549163083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005288     Document Type: Article

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