Functional comparison of the nematode Hox gene lin-39 in C. elegans and P. pacificus reveals evolutionary conservation of protein function despite divergence of primary sequences.

Abstract excerpt

Hox transcription factors have been implicated in playing a central role in the evolution of animal morphology. Many studies indicate the evolutionary importance of regulatory changes in Hox genes, but little is known about the role of functional changes in Hox proteins. In the nematodes Pristion...

Topics

• Amino Acid Sequence
• Animals
• Caenorhabditis elegans
• Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
• Evolution, Molecular
• Female
• Genes, Homeobox
• Homeodomain Proteins
• Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Phosphorylation
• Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid