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The nuclear OXPHOS genes in insecta: a common evolutionary origin, a common cis-regulatory motif, a common destiny for gene duplicates

Damiano Porcelli, Paolo Barsanti, Graziano Pesole and Corrado Caggese*

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:215 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-215

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An integrative approach to ortholog prediction for disease-focused and other functional studies

Yanhui Hu, Ian Flockhart, Arunachalam Vinayagam, Clemens Bergwitz, Bonnie Berger, Norbert Perrimon, Stephanie E Mohr BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12:357 (31 August 2011)

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Specific retention of the protostome-specific PsGEF may parallel with the evolution of mushroom bodies in insect and lophotrochozoan brains

Nozomu Higuchi, Keigo Kohno, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki BMC Biology 2009, 7:21 (7 May 2009)

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The appearance of mushroom bodies, neural structures for processing multiple sensory inputs, in insects and limpet coincides with the presence of the novel protostome-specific GEF gene and its expression as a full-length protein.

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