The Nematode story: Hox gene loss and rapid evolution

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 689, Issue , 2010, Pages 101-110

  Aboobaker, Aziz ^a   Blaxter, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOX GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 77956621707     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6673-5_7     Document Type: Article

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