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SUBMITTER: Yanai I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3118554 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Developmental cell 20110401 4
Changes in gene expression are thought to be important for morphological evolution, though little is known about the nature or magnitude of the differences. Here, we examine Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis, two amphibians with very similar development, and ask how their transcriptomes compare. Despite separation for ~30-90 million years, there is strong conservation in gene expression in the vast majority of the expressed orthologs. Significant changes occur in the level of gene expression ...[more]