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Origin of metazoan cadherin diversity and the antiquity of the classical cadherin/β-catenin complex.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Aug 2012
Nichols Scott Anthony, Roberts Brock William, Richter Daniel Joseph, Fairclough Stephen Robert, King Nicole
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of cadherins, which are essential for metazoan multicellularity and restricted to metazoans and their closest relatives, has special relevance for understanding metazoan origins. To reconstruct the ancestry and evolution of cadherin gene families, we analyzed the genomes of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta, the unicellular outgroup of choanoflagellates and metazoans Capsaspora owczarzaki,...
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