Surprising flexibility in a conserved Hox transcription factor over 550 million years of evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 42, 2010, Pages 18040-18045

  Heffer, Alison ^a,b   Shultz, Jeffrey W ^a   Pick, Leslie ^a,b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

cis regulatory module; Molecular evolution; Protein module

Indexed keywords

FUSHI TARAZU PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA NAUPLII; ARTEMIAN SALINA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOLOMETABOLA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; METAZOA;

EID: 78149261782     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010746107     Document Type: Article

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