Evolutionary history of the HAP2/GCS1 gene and sexual reproduction in metazoans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Steele, Robert E ^a   Dana, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN GCS1; PROTEIN HAP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAD PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMPHIMEDON QUEENSLANDICA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCTION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHLAMYDOMONAS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMPHIMEDON; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CNIDARIA; HYDRA; METAZOA; PROTISTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDRA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM; PORIFERA; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 70449578273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007680     Document Type: Article

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