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The chordate ancestor possessed a single copy of the Brachyury gene for notochord acquisition
BACKGROUND: The T-box family transcription-factor gene, Brachyury, has two expression domains with discrete functions during animal embryogenesis. The primary domain, associated with the blastopore, is shared by most metazoans, while the secondary domain, involved in the notochord, is specific to ch...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5363035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28344820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-017-0064-9 |