The Rabs: A family at the root of metazoan evolution

BMC Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Stenmark, Harald ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

RAB PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOTE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84864412436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-68     Document Type: Note

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