A survey of well conserved families of C2H2 zinc-finger genes in Daphnia

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Seetharam, Arun ^a   Bai, Yang ^a   Stuart, Gary W ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 5; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN C2H2;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DAPHNIA; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DAPHNIA; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 77951599523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-276     Document Type: Article

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