MicroRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19379-19383

  Heimberg, Alysha M ^a   Cowper Sallari, Richard ^b   Sémon, Marie ^c   Donoghue, Philip C J ^d   Peterson, Kevin J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Cyclostomata; Evolution; Homology; Organ

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MICRORNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FISH; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; GNATHOSTOME; HAGFISH; LAMPREY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); HAGFISH; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650592620     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010350107     Document Type: Article

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