Alternative splicing and gene duplication in the evolution of the FoxP gene subfamily

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 237-247

  Santos, M Emília ^a,b,c   Athanasiadis, Alekos ^b   Leitão, Alexandre B ^a,b   Dupasquier, Louis ^c   Sucena, Élio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; evolution; FoxP; gene duplication

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; HEART; HYDROGEN BOND; IMMUNITY; LIVER; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TESTIS; THYMUS; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE DUPLICATION; HEMOCYTES; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650465670     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq182     Document Type: Article

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