Two alloalleles of Xenopus laevis hairy2 gene - Evolution of duplicated gene function from a developmental perspective

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 217, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 665-673

  Murato, Y ^a   Nagatomo, K ^a   Yamaguti, M ^a,c   Hashimoto, C ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JT Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

^c Brain Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Pseudotetraploid; Subfunctionalization; Xenopus laevis; Xhairy2

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR XHAIRY2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR XHAIRY2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NEURAL CREST; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OOCYTES; POLYPLOIDY; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 34548501977     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-007-0176-x     Document Type: Article

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