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Evolutionary scenario proposed for the origin and evolution of the extended Hox and ParaHox gene clusters
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posted on 2011-12-30, 22:20 authored by Carolina Minguillón, Jordi Garcia-FernàndezCopyright information:
Taken from "Genesis and evolution of the and genes and the extended Hox and ParaHox gene clusters"
Genome Biology 2003;4(2):R12-R12.
Published online 23 Jan 2003
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC151302.
Copyright © 2003 Minguillón and Garcia-Fernàndez; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL
It implies an ancestor gene initially linked to the gene (step 1) that gives rise after duplication to and genes, which is paralleled by the generation of primordial Hox and ParaHox clusters, forming a continuous array containing all the Hox-like genes (the 'coupled' Hox-like cluster; step 3). See text for details.