Chromosomal mapping of ANTP class homeobox genes in amphioxus: Piecing together ancestral genomes

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 459-465

  Castro, L F C ^a,b   Holland, P W H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PROBES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141454675     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03052.x     Document Type: Article

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