A complex distribution of elongation family GTPases EF1A and EFL in basal alveolate lineages

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2361-2367

  Mikhailov, Kirill V ^a,b   Janouškovec, Jan ^c   Tikhonenkov, Denis V ^c,d   Mirzaeva, Gulnara S ^e   Diakin, Andrei Yu ^f   Simdyanov, Timur G ^a   Mylnikov, Alexander P ^d   Keeling, Patrick J ^c   Aleoshin, Vladimir V ^a,b,g  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d PAPANIN INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS   (Russian Federation)

^e S YU YUNUSOV INSTITUTE OF THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT SUBSTANCES   (Uzbekistan)

^f MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alveolata; Chromerids; Colpodellids; Colponemids; EF1A; EFL; Elongation factors

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALVEOLATA; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

ALVEOLATA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84924324489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu186     Document Type: Article

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