Piecemeal or big bangs: Correlating the vertebrate evolution with proposed models of gene expansion events

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-

  Abbasi, Amir Ali ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE DUPLICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SEA ANEMONE; SEA URCHIN; VERTEBRATE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

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EID: 75549083753     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2600-c1     Document Type: Letter

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