Comparative phylogenomic analyses of teleost fish Hox gene clusters: Lessons from the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hoegg, Simone ^a   Boore, Jeffrey L ^b,c,d   Kuehl, Jennifer V ^b   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SymBio Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN HOXAA; PROTEIN HOXB 7A; PROTEIN HOXCA; PROTEIN HOXDA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELEOST; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HOMEOBOX; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ACTINOPTERYGII; AFRICAN CICHLIDS; ASTATOTILAPIA BURTONI; CICHLIDAE; DANIO RERIO; ORYZIINAE; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CICHLIDS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 36248967647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-317     Document Type: Article

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