Early eèolution of the T-box transcription factor family

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 16050-16055

  Sebé Pedrós, Arnau ^a,b   Ariza Cosano, Ana ^c   Weirauch, Matthew T ^d   Leininger, Sèen ^e   Yang, Ally ^f   Torruella, Guifré ^a   Adamski, Marcin ^e   Adamska, Maja ^e   Hughes, Timothy R ^f   Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^c   Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Departamento de Biología Molecular e Ingeniería Bioquímica   (Spain)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Holozoa; Origin multicellularity; Porifera; Premetazoan e olution; Subfunctionalization

Indexed keywords

CHORDIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; WNT11 PROTEIN; BRACHYURY PROTEIN; FETOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BILATERIA; BINDING AFFINITY; CAPSASPORA OWCZARZAKI; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CNIDARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOPHORA; DNA BINDING MOTIF; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; ICHTHYOSPOREA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOCALLIMASTIGOMYCOTA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLACOZOA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); TAXONOMY; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HOLOZOA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORIGIN MULTICELLULARITY; PREMETAZOAN EVOLUTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBFUNCTIONALIZATION;

HOLOZOA; ORIGIN MULTICELLULARITY; PORIFERA; PREMETAZOAN EVOLUTION; SUBFUNCTIONALIZATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FETAL PROTEINS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MESOMYCETOZOEA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

EID: 84885058074     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309748110     Document Type: Article

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