Evolution and functional diversification of the GLI family of transcription factors in vertebrates

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 5-13

  Abbasi, Amir Ali ^a,b   Goode, Debbie K ^c   Amir, Saneela ^d   Grzeschik, Karl Heinz ^b  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Development Studies   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FROG; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEDGEHOG; HUMAN; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUFFER FISH; RAT; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 68149170553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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