Tandem organization of independently duplicated homeobox genes in the basal cnidarian Acropora millepora

dc.contributor.authorHislop, Nikki R.en
dc.contributor.authorde Jong, Danielle M.en
dc.contributor.authorHayward, David C.en
dc.contributor.authorBall, Eldon E.en
dc.contributor.authorMiller, David Jamesen
dc.contributor.organisationCentre for the Molecular Genetics of Developmenten
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.descriptionThe original publication can be found at www.springerlink.comen
dc.description.abstractAbstract A number of examples of independently duplicated regulatory genes have been identified in cnidarians, but the extent of this phenomenon and organization of these duplicated genes are unknown. Here we describe the identification of three pairs of independently duplicated homeobox genes in the anthozoan cnidarian, Acropora millepora. In each case, the pairs of paralogous genes are tightly linked, but the extent of sequence divergence implies that these do not reflect recent duplication events. The phenomenon is likely to be more general, as the examples reported here represent most of the limited number of Acropora homeobox genes for which genomic data are yet available.en
dc.identifier.citationDevelopment Genes and Evolution, 2005; 215(5):268-273en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00427-005-0468-yen
dc.identifier.issn0949-944Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/47861
dc.publisherSpringer Berlinen
dc.subjectCoral; Anthozoa; Gene duplication; Pseudogene; Dmbx geneen
dc.titleTandem organization of independently duplicated homeobox genes in the basal cnidarian Acropora milleporaen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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