Minimal ProtoHox cluster inferred from bilaterian and cnidarian Hox complements

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7103, 2006, Pages 684-687

  Chourrout, D ^a   Delsuc, F ^b   Chourrout, P ^c   Edvardsen, R B ^a   Rentzsch, F ^a   Renfer, E ^a   Jensen, M F ^a   Zhu, B ^d   De Jong, P ^d   Steele, R E ^e   Technau, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS   (France)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CNIDARIAN HOX; CNIDARIAN SPECIES; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; PROTOHOX CLUSTER;

BIODIVERSITY;

GENE; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COELENTERATE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; HYDRA MAGNIPAPILLATA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 33747052849     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04863     Document Type: Article

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