The genomic and cellular foundations of animal origins

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 509-537

  Richter, Daniel J ^a   King, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choanoflagellate; Evolution; Multicellularity; Urholozoan; Urmetazoan

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; ALPHA INTEGRIN; CADHERIN; INTEGRIN; PAXILLIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SNARE PROTEIN; TALIN; VINCULIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; EUMETAZOA; FOSSIL; GENE CONTROL; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOLOZOA; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); URMETAZOAN;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; FOSSILS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENES; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84888594977     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-111212-133456     Document Type: Review

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