Vertebrate β-thymosins: Conserved synteny reveals the relationship between those of bony fish and of land vertebrates

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1047-1053

  Edwards, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Thymosin; Conservation of synteny; Teleost; Tetrapod; Whole genome duplication

Indexed keywords

THYMOSIN BETA10;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPTILE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISH PROTEINS; FISHES; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY; THYMOSIN; VERTEBRATES;

MAMMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; REPTILIA; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76749143813     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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