Miiuy Croaker Transferrin Gene and Evidence for Positive Selection Events Reveal Different Evolutionary Patterns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Yueyan ^a   Zhu, Zhihuang ^a   Wang, Rixin ^a   Sun, Yuena ^a   Xu, Tianjun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFERRIN;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MIICHTHYS MIIUY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TF GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFERRIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MIICHTHYS MIIUY; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866038962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043936     Document Type: Article

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