A New Split of the Hox Gene Complex in Drosophila: Relocation and Evolution of the Gene labial

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2042-2054

  Negre, Bárbara ^a   Ranz, José María ^a,b   Casals, Ferran ^a   Cáceres, Mario ^a,c   Ruiz, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosomal rearrangement; Drosophila buzzatii; Genome evolution; Hox complex; Labial

Indexed keywords

ABD A GENE; ABD B GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA BUZATII; DROSOPHILA REPLETA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LABIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME EVOLUTION; HOX GENE COMPLEX; LAB GENE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA BUZZATII; DROSOPHILA REPLETA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; METAZOA; REPLETA GROUP;

EID: 0347986774     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg238     Document Type: Article

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