Comparison of Pax1/9 locus reveals 500-Myr-old syntenic block and evolutionary conserved noncoding regions

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 784-791

  Wang, Wei ^a   Zhong, Jing ^a   Su, Bing ^b,c   Zhou, Yan ^d   Wang, Yi Quan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Conserved synteny; Duplication; Evolution; ncECR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEA URCHIN; SYNTENY; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; VERTEBRATES;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847662814     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl205     Document Type: Article

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