Isolation and characterization of two T-box genes from sponges, the phylogenetically oldest metazoan taxon

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 213, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 421-434

  Adell, Teresa ^a   Grebenjuk, Vladislav A ^a   Wiens, Matthias ^a   Müller, Werner E G ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Molecular evolution; Porifera; Suberites domuncula; T box genes

Indexed keywords

RNA; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; METAZOON; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SPONGE (PORIFERA); TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DEMOSPONGIAE; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PORIFERA; SUBERITES; SUBERITES DOMUNCULA;

EID: 0141886146     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-003-0345-5     Document Type: Review

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