The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7180, 2008, Pages 783-788

  King, Nicole ^a   Westbrook, M Jody ^a   Young, Susan L ^a   Kuo, Alan ^b   Abedin, Monika ^a   Chapman, Jarrod ^a   Fairclough, Stephen ^a   Hellsten, Uffe ^b   Isogai, Yoh ^a   Letunic, Ivica ^c   Marr, Michael ^d   Pincus, David ^e   Putnam, Nicholas ^a   Rokas, Antonis ^f   Wright, Kevin J ^a   Zuzow, Richard ^a   Dirks, William ^a   Good, Matthew ^e   Goodstein, David ^a   Lemons, Derek ^g   Li, Wanqing ^h   Lyons, Jessica B ^a   Morris, Andrea ⁱ   Nichols, Scott ^a   Richter, Daniel J ^a   Salamov, Asaf ^b   Bork, Peer ^c   Lim, Wendell A ^e   Manning, Gerard ^j   Miller, W Todd ^h   McGinnis, William ^g   Shapiro, Harris ^b   Tjian, Robert ^a   Grigoriev, Igor V ^b   Rokhsar, Daniel ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^h STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; METAZOAN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; FLAGELLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOSIGA BREVICOLLIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; METAZOA; MONOSIGA BREVICOLLIS;

EID: 39149110563     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06617     Document Type: Article

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