Functional evolution in the ancestral lineage of vertebrates or when genomic complexity was wagging its morphological tail

Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics

Volumn 3, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 45-52

  Aburomia, Rami ^a   Khaner, Oded ^a,b   Sidow, Arend ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Hadassah College   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory changes; Early vertebrate evolution; Myb gene family; Pax 2 5 8

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, MYB; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037266830     PISSN: 1345711X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022648729770     Document Type: Article

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