Compagen, a comparative genomics platform for early branching metazoan animals, reveals early origins of genes regulating stem-cell differentiation

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1010-1018

  Hemmrich, Georg ^a   Bosch, Thomas C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COELENTERATE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CNIDARIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; PORIFERA; STEM CELLS;

EID: 53149107863     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20813     Document Type: Article

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