Large number of ultraconserved elements were already present in the jawed vertebrate ancestor

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 487-490

  Wang, Jianli ^a   Lee, Alison P ^a   Kodzius, Rimantas ^a   Brenner, Sydney ^a   Venkatesh, Byrappa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elephant shark; Teleost fish; Ultraconserved elements

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FISHES; GENOME; HUMANS; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; RANIDAE; VERTEBRATES;

ANURA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); TAKIFUGU; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA;

EID: 60049101659     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn278     Document Type: Article

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