Chromosome evolution at the origin of the ancestral vertebrate genome

Abstract Background It has been proposed that more than 450 million years ago, two successive whole genome duplications took place in a marine chordate lineage before leading to the common ancestor of vertebrates. A precise reconstruction of these founding events would provide a framework to better...

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Main Authors: Christine Sacerdot, Alexandra Louis, Céline Bon, Camille Berthelot, Hugues Roest Crollius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:Genome Biology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-018-1559-1