Spliceosomal intron insertions in genome compacted ray-finned fishes as evident from phylogeny of MC receptors, also supported by a few other GPCRs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Abhishek ^a,b   Bhandari, Anita ^c   Sinha, Rahul ^d   Goyal, Pankaj ^e   Grapputo, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c International Graduate School Zittau   (Germany)

^d Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 3 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 5 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC M3 RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC P2Y RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FISH GENETICS; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPLICEOSOME; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INTRON;

ACTINOPTERYGII; DANIO RERIO; PISCES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; FISHES; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 79961151701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022046     Document Type: Article

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