Homeobox genes in the cnidarian Eleutheria dichotoma: Evolutionary implications for the origin of Antennapedia-class (HOM/Hox) genes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-38

  Kuhn, Kerstin ^a   Streit, Bruno ^a   Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; ELEUTHERIA DICHOTOMA; HYDROZOA; METAZOA;

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CNIDARIA; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030207575     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0055     Document Type: Article

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