Shared gene structures and clusters of mutually exclusive spliced exons within the metazoan muscle myosin heavy chain genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Kollmar, Martin ^a   Hatje, Klas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BILATERIA; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HELOBDELLA ROBUSTA; INTRON; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALIS; MHC GENE; NONHUMAN; OWL LIMPET; PROTOSTOMIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLES; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84894607953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088111     Document Type: Article

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