Early evolution of a homeobox gene: The parahox gene Gsx in the Cnidaria and the Bilateria

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-345

  Finnerty, John R ^a   Paulson, David ^b   Burton, Pat ^a   Pang, Kevin ^b   Martindale, Mark Q ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE; PHYLOGENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CNIDARIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; EUKARYOTA; EUMETAZOA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATOSTELLA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 0041312469     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03041.x     Document Type: Article

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