The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1100-1111

  Holland, Linda Z ^a   Albalat, Ricard ^b   Azumi, Kaoru ^c   Benito Gutiérrez, Èlia ^b   Blow, Matthew J ^d   Bronner Fraser, Marianne ^e   Brunet, Frederic ^f   Butts, Thomas ^g   Candiani, Simona ^h   Dishaw, Larry J ^i,j   Ferrier, David E K ^g,k   Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^b   Gibson Brown, Jeremy J ^l,ai   Gissi, Carmela ^m   Godzik, Adam ⁿ   Hallböök, Finn ^o   Hirose, Dan ^p   Hosomichi, Kazuyoshi ^q   Ikuta, Tetsuro ^p   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^q   Kasahara, Masanori ^r   Kasamatsu, Jun ^r   Kawashima, Takeshi ^s,aj   Kimura, Ayuko ^t   Kobayashi, Masaaki ^p   Kozmik, Zbynek ^u   Kubokawa, Kaoru ^t   Laudet, Vincent ^f   Litman, Gary W ^i,j,v   McHardy, Alice C ^w,ak   Meulemans, Daniel ^e   Nonaka, Masaru ^t   Olinski, Robert P ^o   Pancer, Zeev ^x   Pennacchio, Len A ^d   Pestarino, Mario ^h   Rast, Jonathan P ^y   Rigoutsos, Isidore ^w   Robinson Rechavi, Marc ^z   Roch, Graeme ^aa   Saiga, Hidetoshi ^p   Sasakura, Yasunori ^ab   Satake, Masanobu ^ac   Satou, Yutaka ^ad   Schubert, Michael ^f   Sherwood, Nancy ^aa   Shiina, Takashi ^q   Takatori, Naohito ^p,al   Tello, Javier ^aa   Vopalensky, Pavel ^u   Wada, Shuichi ^ae   Xu, Anlong ^af   Ye, Yuzhen ⁿ   Yoshida, Keita ^p   Yoshizaki, Fumiko ^ag   Yu, Jr Kai ^e   Zhang, Qing ⁿ   Zmasek, Christian M ⁿ   De Jong, Pieter J ^ah   Osoegawa, Kazutoyo ^ah   Putnam, Nicholas H ^s   Rokhsar, Daniel S ^d,s   Satoh, Noriyuki ^ad,aj   Holland, Peter W H ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

ⁱ H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^l WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

ⁿ BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^o UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^p TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^r HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^u INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^v UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^w IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^y Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^z UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^ac TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ad KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ae NAGAHAMA INSTITUTE OF BIO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^af SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^ag JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ah CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ai Institute for Evolutionary Discovery   (United States)

^aj OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ak MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^al OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; STEROID HORMONE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; CHORDATA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMEOBOX; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; BRANCHIOSTOMIDAE; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 46449117597     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.073676.107     Document Type: Article

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