Multiple Dicer genes in the early-diverging metazoa

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1333-1340

  De Jong, Danielle ^a   Eitel, Michael ^a   Jakob, Wolfgang ^a   Osigus, Hans Juergen ^a   Hadrys, Heike ^a,b   DeSalle, Rob ^c   Schierwater, Bernd ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Dicer; Evolution; Placozoa; Porifera; RNAi

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DICER;

ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; HYDROZOA; METAZOON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SPONGE (PORIFERA); UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BAYES THEOREM; DATABASES, GENETIC; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; RIBONUCLEASE III;

AMPHIMEDON; CNIDARIA; HYDRA MAGNIPAPILLATA; METAZOA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; PLACOZOA; PORIFERA; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

EID: 66249092431     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp042     Document Type: Article

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