Atypical relaxation of structural constraints in Hox gene clusters of the green anole lizard

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 602-610

  Di Poï, Nicolas ^a   Montoya Burgos, Juan I ^a   Duboule, Denis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOX GENE; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; LIZARDS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849253211     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.087932.108     Document Type: Article

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