How much does the amphioxus genome represent the ancestor of chordates?

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-95

  Louis, Alexandra ^a   Roest Crollius, Hugues ^a   Robinson Rechavi, Marc ^b,c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Deuterostomes; Evolutionary rates; Gene duplication; Gene loss; Orthology; Synteny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEUTEROSTOMIA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; OIKOPLEURA; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; CIONA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; OIKOPLEURA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859080996     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/els003     Document Type: Article

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