An insight into the phylogenetic history of HOX linked gene families in vertebrates

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Abbasi, Amir Ali ^a   Grzeschik, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; LIGHT CHAIN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 38949108679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-239     Document Type: Article

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