Salamander Hox clusters contain repetitive DNA and expanded non-coding regions: A typical Hox structure for non-mammalian tetrapod vertebrates?

Human Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Voss, Stephen Randal ^a,b   Putta, Srikrishna ^a,b   Walker, John A ^a,b   Smith, Jeramiah J ^a   Maki, Nobuyasu ^c   Tsonis, Panagiotis A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genome; Hox; Salamander

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SPACER DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HOX GENE; HOXC10 GENE; HOXC11 GENE; HOXC4 GENE; HOXC5 GENE; HOXC6 GENE; HOXC8 GENE; HOXC9 GENE; HOXD11 GENE; HOXD13 GENE; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NOTOPHTHALAMUS VIRIDESCENS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALAMANDER; TETRAPOD; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BASE PAIRING; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOME; HOMEOBOX; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SALAMANDRIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; URODELA;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOME; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; INTRONS; MAMMALS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SALAMANDRIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URODELA;

EID: 84890859934     PISSN: 14739542     EISSN: 14797364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-7-9     Document Type: Article

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