A genomic view of 500 million years of cnidarian evolution

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-13

  Steele, Robert E ^a   David, Charles N ^b   Technau, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; COELENTERATE; CORAL; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HOMEOBOX; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; JELLYFISH; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYP (CNIDARIAN); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA ANEMONE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANS SPLICING; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CNIDARIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; PHYLOGENY;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; HYDRA; HYDRIDAE; NEMATOSTELLA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 78650616943     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.10.002     Document Type: Review

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