Phylostratigraphic tracking of cancer genes suggests a link to the emergence of multicellularity in metazoa

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Phylostratigraphy is a method used to correlate the evolutionary origin of founder genes (that is, functional founder protein domains) of gene families with particular macroevolutionary transitions. It is based on a model of genome e...

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Main Authors: Domazet-Lošo Tomislav, Tautz Diethard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-05-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/66