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The conservation and uniqueness of the caspase family in the basal chordate, amphioxus
BACKGROUND: The caspase family, which plays a central role in apoptosis in metazoans, has undergone an expansion in amphioxus, increasing to 45 members through domain recombination and shuffling. RESULTS: In order to shed light on the conservation and uniqueness of this family in amphioxus, we clone...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21933445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-60 |