Comparative Genomics of Neuroglobin Reveals Its Early Origins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Dröge, Jasmin ^a   Pande, Amit ^a   Englander, Ella W ^b   Makałowski, Wojciech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOGLOBIN; NEUROGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NGB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; POMT2 GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; SYNTENY; TADGB1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRICHOPLAX; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS; VERTEBRATE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BAYES THEOREM; CELL SURVIVAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; GLOBINS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BILATERIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; PLACOZOA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS; TRICHOPLAX; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84868117103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047972     Document Type: Article

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