Evolution of synapse complexity and diversity

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 111-131

  Emes, Richard D ^a   Grant, Seth G N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genome; postsynaptic density; proteome; protosynapse

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEOME; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEOME; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84862642971     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150433     Document Type: Review

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