Were vertebrates octoploid?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1420, 2002, Pages 531-544

  Furlong, Rebecca F ^a   Holland, Peter W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Evolution; Genome duplication; Octoploidy; Tetraploidy

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENOME; PLOIDY; VERTEBRATE;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0037192932     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2001.1035     Document Type: Article

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