Multiple functionally divergent and conserved copies of alpha tubulin in bdelloid rotifers

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Eyres, Isobel ^a   Frangedakis, Eftychios ^a,b   Fontaneto, Diego ^a,e   Herniou, Elisabeth A ^c   Boschetti, Chiara ^d   Carr, Adrian ^d   Micklem, Gos ^d   Tunnacliffe, Alan ^d   Barraclough, Timothy G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bdelloid rotifers; Evolution; Gene copies; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DESICCATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; SURVIVORSHIP;

ADINETA RICCIAE; ANIMALIA; BDELLOIDA; ROTIFERA;

TRANSCRIPTOME; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; ROTIFERA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE DOSAGE; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; ROTIFERA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TUBULIN;

EID: 84865058190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-148     Document Type: Article

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