Missing link in the evolution of Hox clusters

Gene

Volumn 387, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 21-30

  Ogishima, Soichi ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene cluster; Motif; Motif gain loss; Motif based reconstruction; Multigene family

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; EMBRYO; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOX GENE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CNIDARIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

ACOELA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; METAZOA;

EID: 33845667485     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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