Birth-and-death long-term evolution promotes histone H2B variant diversification in the male germinal cell line

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1802-1812

  González Romero, Rodrigo ^a   Rivera Casas, Ciro ^a   Ausió, Juan ^b   Méndez, Josefina ^a   Eirín López, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

chromatin; H2B variants; selective constraints; spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE; ISOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CODON USAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; GERM CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOGENES; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 77954996410     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq058     Document Type: Article

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