The evolution of engrailed genes after duplication and speciation events

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 307-318

  Gibert, Jean Michel ^a,b  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Engrailed; Evolution; Gene duplication; Review; Speciation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ENGRAILED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC CODE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, REGULATOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRONS; LEECHES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SOMITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 0036942922     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0243-2     Document Type: Review

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