Metazoan evolution: some animals are more equal than others.
Comparison of newly available sequence data facilitates reconstruction of the gene inventory of the Urbilateria, the last common ancestor of flies, nematodes and humans. The most surprising outcome is that human genes seem to be closer to the bilaterian roots than previously assumed.
Developmental Biology Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Florian
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Raible
Detlev
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Arendt
D000818:Animals; D017124:Conserved Sequence / Q000235:genetics*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D006801:Humans; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity