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The origin and evolution of ARGFX homeobox loci in mammalian radiation

Guang Li1,2 and Peter WH Holland1*

1 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK

2 Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Cell Biology and Tumor Cell Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:182 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-182

Published: 17 June 2010

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ARGFX sequences used in this study (MS Word format).

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Additional file 2:

Alignment of eleven ARGFX coding sequences showing mutations leading to frameshifts (in grey shade) or stop codons (in red shade). The homeobox is underlined.

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Pairwise poisson-distances between ten deduced ARGFX protein sequences.

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