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SUBMITTER: Freeman R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4524734 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Freeman Robert R Ikuta Tetsuro T Wu Michael M Koyanagi Ryo R Kawashima Takeshi T Tagawa Kunifumi K Humphreys Tom T Fang Guang-Chen GC Fujiyama Asao A Saiga Hidetoshi H Lowe Christopher C Worley Kim K Jenkins Jerry J Schmutz Jeremy J Kirschner Marc M Rokhsar Daniel D Satoh Nori N Gerhart John J
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Genomic comparisons of chordates, hemichordates, and echinoderms can inform hypotheses for the evolution of these strikingly different phyla from the last common deuterostome ancestor. Because hox genes play pivotal developmental roles in bilaterian animals, we analyzed the Hox complexes of two hemichordate genomes. We find that Saccoglossus kowalevskii and Ptychodera flava both possess 12-gene clusters, with mir10 between hox4 and hox5, in 550 kb and 452 kb intervals, respectively. Genes hox1-h ...[more]