The evolution of metazoan extracellular matrix

The modular domain structure of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and their genes has allowed extensive exon/domain shuffling during evolution to generate hundreds of ECM proteins. Many of these arose early during metazoan evolution and have been highly conserved ever since. Others have undergone...

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Main Author: Hynes, Richard O (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Hynes, Richard O. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rockefeller University Press, The, 2012-05-04T21:23:09Z.
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