Comparative and evolutionary analysis of the HES/HEY gene family reveal exon/intron loss and teleost specific duplication events

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Mi ^a   Yan, Jun ^a   Ma, Zhaowu ^a   Zhou, Yang ^a   Abbood, Nibras Najm ^a   Liu, Jianfeng ^a   Su, Li ^a   Jia, Haibo ^a   Guo, An Yuan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXON; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HES GENE; HEY GENE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; OSTEICHTHYES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863743043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040649     Document Type: Article

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