Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes
The ParaHox gene cluster is the evolutionary sister to the Hox cluster. Whilst the role of the Hox cluster in patterning the anterior-posterior axis of bilaterian animals is well established, and the organisation of vertebrate Hox clusters is intimately linked to gene regulation, much less is known...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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23 July 2009
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BMC biology
Year: 2009, Volume: 7 |
| ISSN: | 1741-7007 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1741-7007-7-43 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-43
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| Author Notes: | Jerome HL Hui, Florian Raible, Natalia Korchagina, Nicolas Dray, Sylvie Samain, Ghislaine Magdelenat, Claire Jubin, Béatrice Segurens, Guillaume Balavoine, Detlev Arendt, David EK Ferrier |
| Summary: | The ParaHox gene cluster is the evolutionary sister to the Hox cluster. Whilst the role of the Hox cluster in patterning the anterior-posterior axis of bilaterian animals is well established, and the organisation of vertebrate Hox clusters is intimately linked to gene regulation, much less is known about the more recently discovered ParaHox cluster. ParaHox gene clustering, and its relationship to expression, has only been described in deuterostomes. Conventional protostome models (Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans) are secondarily derived with respect to ParaHox genes, suffering gene loss and cluster break-up. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 17.05.2017 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1741-7007 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1741-7007-7-43 |