High nucleotide divergence in developmental regulatory genes contrasts with the structural elements of olfactory pathways in Caenorhabditis

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1387-1397

  Jovelin, Richard ^a   Dunham, Joseph P ^a,b   Sung, Frances S ^a,b   Phillips, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650337477     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.082651     Document Type: Article

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