Chromosome evolution at the origin of the ancestral vertebrate genome
Abstract Background It has been proposed that more than 450 million years ago, two successive whole genome duplications took place in a marine chordate lineage before leading to the common ancestor of vertebrates. A precise reconstruction of these founding events would provide a framework to better...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-10-01
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Series: | Genome Biology |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-018-1559-1 |