Evidence of duplicated Hox genes in the most recent common ancestor of extant scorpions

SUMMARY Scorpions (order Scorpiones) are unusual among arthropods, both for the extreme heteronomy of their bauplan and for the high gene family turnover exhibited in their genomes. These phenomena appear to be correlated, as two scorpion species have been shown to possess nearly twice the number of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Evolution & development 2015-11, Vol.17 (6), p.347-355
Hauptverfasser:	Sharma, Prashant P., Santiago, Marc A., González-Santillán, Edmundo, Monod, Lionel, Wheeler, Ward C.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Arachnids Arthropoda Buthidae Evolution & development Evolution, Molecular Gene Duplication Genes Genes, Homeobox Genomes Phylogeny Scorpiones Scorpions - genetics Transcriptome
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