Hox genes: did the vertebrate ancestor have a Hox14?

David Ellard Keith Ferrier

doi:doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.025

Hox genes: did the vertebrate ancestor have a Hox14?

David Ellard Keith Ferrier

School of Biology

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Abstract

A new group of vertebrate Hox genes, Hox14, has been discovered in two fish, the horn shark and the coelacanth. This reveals that ancestrally all jawed vertebrates may have had fourteen Hox paralogue groups rather than the thirteen groups of mammals and teleost fish.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R210-R211
Number of pages	2
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.025
Publication status	Published - 9 Mar 2004

Keywords

PETROMYZON-MARINUS
GENOME EVOLUTION
CLUSTER
ORGANIZATION
FISH

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