Evolution of the fish heart by sub/neofunctionalization of an elastin gene

Autor: Yuuta Moriyama, Fumihiro Ito, Hiroyuki Takeda, Tohru Yano, Masataka Okabe, Shigehiro Kuraku, Fred W. Keeley, Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10397
Popis: The bulbus arteriosus is an organ unique to the heart of teleosts, composed of specialized smooth muscle. Here, the authors show that the gene elastin b, which regulates cell fate of cardiac precursor cells into smooth muscle, evolved after whole-genome duplication and neofunctionalization in teleosts.
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