Unexpected repertoire of metazoan transcription factors in the unicellular holozoan capsaspora owczarzaki

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1241-1254

  Sebé Pedrós, Arnau ^a   De Mendoza, Alex ^a   Lang, B Franz ^b   Degnan, Bernard M ^c   Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

brachyury; choanoflagellates; homeodomain; multicellularity; origin Metazoa; T box

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX;

ARTICLE; CAPSASPORA OWCZARZAKI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; METAZOON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAPSASPORA OWCZARZAKI; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA;

EID: 79952143437     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq309     Document Type: Article

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