Cnidarians and ancestral genetic complexity in the animal kingdom

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dc.contributor.authorMiller, David J.en
dc.contributor.authorBall, Eldon E.en
dc.contributor.authorTechnau, Ulrichen
dc.contributor.organisationCentre for the Molecular Genetics of Developmenten
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.description.abstractEleven of the twelve recognized wingless (Wnt) subfamilies are represented in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, indicating that this developmentally important gene family was already fully diversified in the common ancestor of ‘higher’ animals. In deuterostomes, although duplications have occurred, no novel subfamilies of Wnts have evolved. By contrast, the protostomes Drosophila and Caenorhabditis have lost half of the ancestral Wnts. This pattern – loss of genes from an ancestrally complex state – might be more important in animal evolution than previously recognized.en
dc.description.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01689525en
dc.identifier.citationTrends in Genetics, 2005; 21(10):536-539en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.tig.2005.08.002en
dc.identifier.issn0168-9525en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/47846
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.titleCnidarians and ancestral genetic complexity in the animal kingdomen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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