Molecular paleoecology: Using gene regulatory analysis to address the origins of complex life cycles in the late Precambrian

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-24

  Dunn, Ewan F ^a   Moy, Vanessa N ^a   Angerer, Lynne M ^b   Angerer, Robert C ^b   Morris, Robert L ^c   Peterson, Kevin J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BENTHOS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; METAZOAN; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PRECAMBRIAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LIFE CYCLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PALEONTOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHINS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BILATERIA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; HALIOTIS CORRUGATA; HALIOTIS RUFESCENS; METAZOA; PROTOSTOMIA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 33846035217     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00134.x     Document Type: Article

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