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Origin and diversification of the basic helix-loop-helix gene family in metazoans: insights from comparative genomics

Elena Simionato, Valérie Ledent, Gemma Richards, Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Pierre Kerner, David Coornaert, Bernard M Degnan and Michel Vervoort*

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:33 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-33

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The evolution of Runx genes II. The C-terminal Groucho recruitment motif is present in both eumetazoans and homoscleromorphs but absent in a haplosclerid demosponge

Anthony J Robertson, Claire Larroux, Bernard M Degnan, James A Coffman BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:59 (17 April 2009)

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Evolution of the holozoan ribosome biogenesis regulon

Seth J Brown, Michael D Cole, Albert J Erives BMC Genomics 2008, 9:442 (24 September 2008)

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atonal- and achaete-scute-related genes in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii: insights into the evolution of neural basic-Helix-Loop-Helix genes

Elena Simionato, Pierre Kerner, Nicolas Dray, Martine Le Gouar, Valérie Ledent, Detlev Arendt, Michel Vervoort BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:170 (9 June 2008)

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The metazoan history of the COE transcription factors. Selection of a variant HLH motif by mandatory inclusion of a duplicated exon in vertebrates

Virginie Daburon, Sébastien Mella, Jean-Louis Plouhinec, Sylvie Mazan, Michèle Crozatier, Alain Vincent BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:131 (2 May 2008)