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SUBMITTER: Kugler JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3066068 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kugler Jamie E JE Passamaneck Yale J YJ Feldman Taya G TG Beh Jeni J Regnier Todd W TW Di Gregorio Anna A
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) 20081101 11
To reconstruct a minimum complement of notochord genes evolutionarily conserved across chordates, we scanned the Ciona intestinalis genome using the sequences of 182 genes reported to be expressed in the notochord of different vertebrates and identified 139 candidate notochord genes. For 66 of these Ciona genes expression data were already available, hence we analyzed the expression of the remaining 73 genes and found notochord expression for 20. The predicted products of the newly identified no ...[more]