Polyploidy in vertebrate ancestry: Ohno and beyond

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 425-430

  Furlong, Rebecca F ^a   Holland, Peter W H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Gene duplication; Genome evolution; Paralogy; Tetraploidy

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; VERTEBRATE;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4344648527     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00329.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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