Tubulin evolution in insects: Gene duplication and subfunctionalization provide specialized isoforms in a functionally constrained gene family

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Nielsen, Mark G ^a   Gadagkar, Sudhindra R ^a,b   Gutzwiller, Lisa ^a,c  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

^b CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; LOBSTER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; HIRTODROSOPHILA; HOMARUS AMERICANUS;

INSECT PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; TUBULIN;

EID: 77951226522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-113     Document Type: Article

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