Evolutionary scenarios of notch proteins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1631-1640

  Theodosiou, Athina ^a,b   Arhondakis, Stilianos ^a   Baumann, Marc ^c   Kossida, Sophia ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evolution; Homologs; Notch; Synteny

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHORDATA; FOWL; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FAMILY; REPTILE; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SYNTENY;

AVES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 67649345676     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp075     Document Type: Article

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