Evolutionary genomics of the recently duplicated amphioxus Hairy genes.
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SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Delgado S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1458425 | biostudies-literature | 2006
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Evolutionary genomics of the recently duplicated amphioxus Hairy genes.
Jiménez-Delgado Senda S Crespo Miguel M Permanyer Jon J Garcia-Fernàndez Jordi J Manzanares Miguel M
International journal of biological sciences 20060410 2
Amphioxus Hairy genes have gone through a number of lineage-specific duplications, resulting in eight members, some of which are differentially expressed in the embryo. In order to gain insights into the evolution and function of this gene family we have compared their genomic structure and searched for conserved non-coding sequence elements. We have found that introns have been lost independently from these genes at least twice and after the duplication events. By carrying out phylogenetic foot ...[more]
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