Parallel expansions of sox transcription factor group b predating the diversifications of the arthropods and jawed vertebrates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zhong, Lei ^a,b   Wang, Dengqiang ^a,b   Gan, Xiaoni ^a,b   Yang, Tong ^a   He, Shunping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; CLADISTICS; DIVERSIFYING SELECTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT GENOME; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; JAW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); HEXAPODA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; JAW; PHYLOGENY; SOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 79551546644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016570     Document Type: Article

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