Gene co-option in physiological and morphological evolution

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2002, Pages 53-80

  True, John R ^a   Carroll, Sean B ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolvability; Gene duplication; Modularity; Morphogenetic novelty; Regulatory evolution

Indexed keywords

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; CRYSTALLIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL GENE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; HUMANS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036439421     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.18.020402.140619     Document Type: Review

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