Evidence for convergent evolution in the antimicrobial peptide system in anuran amphibians

Peptides

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-25

  König, Enrico ^a   Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

"Archaeobatrachia"; Antimicrobial peptides; Defense system; Evolution; Gene family; Neobatrachia; Signal sequence

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FROGS AND TOADS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BOMBINA SP.; BOMBINATORIDAE; NEOBATRACHIA; PIPIDAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 78650518484     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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