The evolution of the Hox cluster: Insights from outgroups

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 681-687

  Finnerty, John R ^a   Martindale, Mark Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANNELID WORM; ARTHROPOD; CELL LINEAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; FISH; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; LEECH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA ANEMONE; TELEOST; WORM;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; GLOSSIPHONIIDAE; HIRUDINIDA; METAZOA; MYRIAPODA; NEMATODA; NEMERTEA; ONYCHOPHORA; PISCES; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYCHAETA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0031737930     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(98)80037-3     Document Type: Article

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