Genesis and evolution of the Evx and Moxgenes and the extended Hox and ParaHox gene clusters

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Minguillón, Carolina ^a,b   Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metazoan Evolution; ParaHox Gene; Tandem Duplication; Tandem Duplication Event; Tandem Gene Duplication

Indexed keywords

EVX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EVX1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; DROSOPHILA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

EID: 19244385010     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-r12     Document Type: Article

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