Bioinformatics identifies tardigrade molecular adaptations including the DNA-j family and first steps towards dynamical modelling

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages 120-126

  Förster, Frank ^a   Beisser, Daniela ^a   Frohme, Marcus ^b   Schill, Ralph O ^c   Dandekar, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clusters of orthologous groups; Evolution; Genome analysis; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOINFORMATICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 79955023505     PISSN: 09475745     EISSN: 14390469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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