The Hox gene complement of acoel flatworms, a basal bilaterian clade

Evolution and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 154-163

  Cook, Charles E ^a,c   Jiménez, Eva ^b   Akam, Michael ^a   Saló, Emili ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c British Antarctic Survery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

PHYLOGENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACOELOMORPHA; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 2342537107     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2004.04020.x     Document Type: Article

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