The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype.

H Putnam, Nicholas; Butts, Thomas; E K Ferrier, David; F Furlong, Rebecca; Hellsten, Uffe; Kawashima, Takeshi; Robinson-Rechavi, Marc; Shoguchi, Eiichi; Terry, Astrid; Yu, Jr-Kai; Lia Benito-Gutiérrez, E; Dubchak, Inna; Garcia-Fernàndez, Jordi; J Gibson-Brown, Jeremy; V Grigoriev, Igor; C Horton, Amy; J de Jong, Pieter; Jurka, Jerzy; V Kapitonov, Vladimir; Kohara, Yuji; Kuroki, Yoko; Lindquist, Erika; Lucas, Susan; Osoegawa, Kazutoyo; A Pennacchio, Len; A Salamov, Asaf; Satou, Yutaka; Sauka-Spengler, Tatjana; Schmutz, Jeremy; Shin-I, Tadasu; Toyoda, Atsushi; Bronner-Fraser, Marianne; Fujiyama, Asao; Z Holland, Linda; W H Holland, Peter; Satoh, Nori; S Rokhsar, Daniel

doi:10.1038/nature06967

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The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype.

Published in Nature • Jun 19, 2008

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Nicholas H Putnam

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Thomas Butts

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David E K Ferrier

Abstract

Lancelets ('amphioxus') are the modern survivors of an ancient chordate lineage, with a fossil record dating back to the Cambrian period. Here we describe the structure and gene content of the highly polymorphic approximately 520-megabase genome of the Florida lancelet Branchiostoma floridae, and an...

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