Impact of gene gains, losses and duplication modes on the origin and diversification of vertebrates

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 83-94

  Cañestro, Cristian ^a   Albalat, Ricard ^a   Irimia, Manuel ^b   Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Gene duplication; Genome duplication; Transposon

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MICRORNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX5;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CHORDATA; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC GAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; LARVA; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875248174     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2012.12.008     Document Type: Review

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