The evolutionary history of R2R3-myb proteins across 50 eukaryotes: New insights into subfamily classification and expansion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Du, Hai ^a   Liang, Zhe ^c   Zhao, Sen ^d,e   Nan, Ming Ge ^a   Tran, Lam Son Phan ^f   Lu, Kun ^a   Huang, Yu Bi ^b   Li, Jia Na ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84930945498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11037     Document Type: Article

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