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Gene order data from a model amphibian (Ambystoma): new perspectives on vertebrate genome structure and evolution.

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Abstract
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Because amphibians arise from a branch of the vertebrate evolutionary tree that is juxtaposed between fishes and amniotes, they provide important comparative perspective for reconstructing character changes that have occurred during vertebrate evolution. Here, we report the first comparative study of vertebrate genome structure that includes a representative amphibian. We used 491 transcribed sequences from a salamander (Ambystoma) genetic map and whole genome assemblies for human, mouse, rat, dog, chicken, zebrafish, and the freshwater pufferfish Tetraodon nigroviridis to compare gene orders and rearrangement rates.

Year of Publication
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2006
Journal
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BMC genomics
Volume
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7
Number of Pages
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219
Date Published
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2006
URL
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https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2164-7-219
DOI
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10.1186/1471-2164-7-219
Short Title
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BMC Genomics
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