Evolutionary change of the numbers of homeobox genes in bilateral animals

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2386-2394

  Nam, Jongmin ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary developmental biology; Gene duplication; Gene loss; Homeobox genes; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27844524905     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi229     Document Type: Article

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