Extensive chordate and annelid macrosynteny reveals ancestral homeobox gene organization

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 157-165

  Hui, Jerome H L ^a,d   McDougall, Carmel ^a,e   Monteiro, Ana S ^a,f   Holland, Peter W H ^a   Arendt, Detlev ^b   Balavoine, Guillaume ^c   Ferrier, David E K ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antennapedia class; Homeobox; Platynereis dumerilii; Protostome deuterostome ancestor

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHORDATA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEUTEROSTOMIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMEOBOX; HOX GENE; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NK GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYNEREIS DUMERILII; POLYCHAETA; PROTOSTOMIA;

ANIMALS; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; CHORDATA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYCHAETA; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; PLATYNEREIS DUMERILII; PROTOSTOMIA;

EID: 84862853837     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr175     Document Type: Article

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