Functional significance may underlie the taxonomic utility of single amino acid substitutions in conserved proteins

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-402

  Tyler, Kevin M ^a   Wagner, Gerd K ^b   Wu, Qiong ^c   Huber, Katharina T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Education   (China)

Author keywords

Eukaryote; Phylogeny; SNP; Substitution; Tubulin; Unikont

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; UNIKONTA;

EID: 77954459257     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9338-y     Document Type: Article

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