Comparative genomics and evolution of the alpha-defensin Multigene family in primates

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2333-2343

  Das, Sabyasachi ^a   Nikolaidis, Nikolas ^b   Goto, Hiroki ^c   McCallister, Chelsea ^b   Li, Jianxu ^a   Hirano, Masayuki ^a   Cooper, Max D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alpha defensin gene; birthand death evolution; comparative genomics; innate immunity; positive selection; primate evolution

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MACACA; MARMOSET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORANG UTAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIMATE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE COMPONENTS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; MARMOSETS; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 77957236680     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq118     Document Type: Article

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