Dispersal of NK homeobox gene clusters in amphioxus and humans.
The Drosophila melanogaster genome has six physically clustered NK-related homeobox genes in just 180 kb. Here we show that the NK homeobox gene cluster was an ancient feature of bilaterian animal genomes, but has been secondarily split in chordate ancestry. The NK homeobox gene clusters of amphioxu...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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