Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 633-639

  Technau, Ulrich ^a   Rudd, Stephen ^b   Maxwell, Peter ^c   Gordon, Paul M K ^d   Saina, Michael ^a   Grasso, Lauretta C ^e   Hayward, David C ^e   Sensen, Christoph W ^d   Saint, Robert ^e   Holstein, Thomas W ^f   Ball, Eldon E ^e   Miller, David J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b TURKU CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ANTHOZOA; COELENTERATE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE LOSS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BILATERIA; CHORDATA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; METAZOA;

EID: 27744503847     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.09.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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