Comparative analyses of vertebrate posterior HoxD clusters reveal atypical cluster architecture in the caecilian Typhlonectes natans

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mannaert, An ^a   Amemiya, Chris T ^b   Bossuyt, Franky ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; FROG; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOXD GENE; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CAECILIA; COELACANTHIDAE; MAMMALIA; TETRAPODA; TYPHLONECTES NATANS; VERTEBRATA;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 78549276870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-658     Document Type: Article

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