Phylogeny unites animal sodium leak channels with fungal calcium channels in an ancient, voltage-insensitive clade

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3613-3616

  Liebeskind, Benjamin J ^a   Hillis, David M ^a   Zakon, Harold H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cch1; maximum likelihood; NALCN; pore motif

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM LEAK CHANNEL NONSELECTIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALLOMYCES; ALLOMYCES MACROGYNUS; AMPHIMEDON QUEENSLANDICA; CLADISTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOKONTA; PHYCOMYCES BLAKESLEEANUS; PHYLOGENY; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATES; ION CHANNELS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SODIUM CHANNELS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP;

EID: 84869076149     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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