Eleven ancestral gene families lost in mammals and vertebrates while otherwise universally conserved in animals

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Gene losses played a role which may have been as important as gene and genome duplications and rearrangements, in modelling today species' genomes from a common ancestral set of genes. The set and diversity of protein-coding gen...

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Main Authors: Danchin Etienne GJ, Gouret Philippe, Pontarotti Pierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-01-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/6/5