The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima

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Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Chipman, Ariel D ^a   Ferrier, David E K ^b   Brena, Carlo ^c   Qu, Jiaxin ^d   Hughes, Daniel S T ^d,e   Schröder, Reinhard ^f   Torres Oliva, Montserrat ^c,ao   Znassi, Nadia ^c,ap   Jiang, Huaiyang ^d   Almeida, Francisca C ^g,h   Alonso, Claudio R ⁱ   Apostolou, Zivkos ^c,j   Aqrawi, Peshtewani ^d   Arthur, Wallace ^k   Barna, Jennifer C J ^c   Blankenburg, Kerstin P ^d   Brites, Daniela ^l,m   Capella Gutiérrez, Salvador ⁿ   Coyle, Marcus ^d   Dearden, Peter K ^o   Du Pasquier, Louis ^l   Duncan, Elizabeth J ^o   Ebert, Dieter ^l   Eibner, Cornelius ^k,aq   Erikson, Galina ^p,q   Evans, Peter D ^r   Extavour, Cassandra G ^s   Francisco, Liezl ^d   Gabaldón, Toni ^n,t,u   Gillis, William J ^v   Goodwin Horn, Elizabeth A ^w   Green, Jack E ^c   Griffiths Jones, Sam ^x   Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J P ^y   Gubbala, Sai ^d   Guigó, Roderic ^n,t   Han, Yi ^d   Hauser, Frank ^y   Havlak, Paul ^z   Hayden, Luke ^k   Helbing, Sophie ^aa   Holder, Michael ^d   Hui, Jerome H L ^ab   Hunn, Julia P ^ac   Hunnekuhl, Vera S ^c   Jackson, LaRonda ^d   Javaid, Mehwish ^d   Jhangiani, Shalini N ^d   Jiggins, Francis M ^c   Jones, Tamsin E ^s   Kaiser, Tobias S ^ad   Kalra, Divya ^d   Kenny, Nathan J ^ab   Korchina, Viktoriya ^d   Kovar, Christie L ^d   Kraus, F Bernhard ^aa,ae   Lapraz, François ^af   Lee, Sandra L ^d   Lv, Jie ^z   Mandapat, Christigale ^d   Manning, Gerard ^p,ar   Mariotti, Marco ^n,t   Mata, Robert ^d   Mathew, Tittu ^d   Neumann, Tobias ^ad,ag   Newsham, Irene ^d,as   Ngo, Dinh N ^d   Ninova, Maria ^x   Okwuonu, Geoffrey ^d   Ongeri, Fiona ^d   Palmer, William J ^c   Patil, Shobha ^d   Patraquim, Pedro ⁱ   Pham, Christopher ^d   Pu, Ling Ling ^d   Putman, Nicholas H ^z   Rabouille, Catherine ^ah   Ramos, Olivia Mendivil ^b,at   Rhodes, Adelaide C ^ai   Robertson, Helen E ^af   Robertson, Hugh M ^aj   Ronshaugen, Matthew ^x   Rozas, Julio ^g   Saada, Nehad ^d   Sánchez Gracia, Alejandro ^g   Scherer, Steven E ^d   Schurko, Andrew M ^w   Siggens, Kenneth W ^c   Simmons, DeNard ^d   Stief, Anna ^c,ak   Stolle, Eckart ^aa   Telford, Maximilian J ^af   Tessmar Raible, Kristin ^ad,al   Thornton, Rebecca ^d   van der Zee, Maurijn ^am   von Haeseler, Arndt ^ad,ag   Williams, James M ^w   Willis, Judith H ^an   Wu, Yuanqing ^d,as   Zou, Xiaoyan ^d   Lawson, Daniel ^e   Muzny, Donna M ^d   Worley, Kim C ^d   Gibbs, Richard A ^d   Akam, Michael ^c   Richards, Stephen ^d   more..

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^j INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^k NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^m SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁿ CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^p SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^q SCRIPPS TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^r BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^s HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

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

^v STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^y UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^z RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^ab CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^ac UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^ae MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^af UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ag MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^ah HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^ai TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^al Research Platform Marine Rhythms of Life   (Austria)

^am LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^an UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^ap Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^aq FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^ar GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^as UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^at Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTIPEDE; DNA SPLICING; DROSOPHILA; DSCAM GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MYRIAPODA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRIGAMIA MARITIMA; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; SEX CHROMOSOME; SYNTENY;

ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; STRIGAMIA MARITIMA;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; HORMONE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; SELENOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HORMONES; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SELENOPROTEINS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84912567300     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002005     Document Type: Article

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