Constraints on genes shape long-term conservation of macro-synteny in metazoan genomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Many metazoan genomes conserve chromosome-scale gene linkage relationships (“macro-synteny”) from the common ancestor of multicellular animal life <abbrgrp><abbr bid="B1">1</abbr><abbr bid="B2"...

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Main Authors: Putnam Nicholas H, Havlak Paul, Lv Jie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-10-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/S9/S11