Do we have to reconsider the evolutionary emergence of myelin?

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Werner, Hauke B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genomics; Lamprey; Myelin basic protein (MBP); Myelination; Oligodendrocyte; Saltatory impulse propagation; Schwann cell; Vertebrate evolution

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GOLLI GENE; LAMPREY; MBP GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYELINATION; MYELINE GENE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PUBLICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 84888171726     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00217     Document Type: Note

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