Deleterious mutations of a claw keratin in multiple taxa of reptiles

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-273

  Dalla Valle, Luisa ^a   Benato, Francesca ^a   Rossi, Chiara ^a   Alibardi, Lorenzo ^b   Tschachler, Erwin ^c   Eckhart, Leopold ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Claw; Epidermis; Gene loss; Hair; Keratin; Reptiles; Sauropsids

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; KERATIN TYPE I;

ALLIGATOR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOOF AND CLAW; LIZARD; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TURTLE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HOOF AND CLAW; KERATINS; KERATINS, TYPE I; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TURTLES;

ALLIGATOR; ANGUIS FRAGILIS; ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); GEKKO; LACERTIDAE; MAMMALIA; PODARCIS SICULA; REPTILIA; SAUROPSIDA; SERPENTES; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE;

EID: 79953655825     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9427-y     Document Type: Article

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