Abstract
Echinoderms have long served as model organisms for a variety of biological research, especially in the field of developmental biology. Although the genome of the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has been sequenced, it is the only echinoderm whose whole genome sequence has been reported. Nevertheless, data is rapidly accumulating on the chromosomes and genomic sequences of all five classes of echinoderms, including the mitochondrial genomes and Hox genes. This blossoming new data will be essential for estimating the phylogenetic relationships among echinoderms, and also to examine the underlying mechanisms by which the diverse morphologies of echinoderms have arisen.
Keywords: Echinoderm, genome, sea urchin, morphology, fertilization, Telomere, sex chromosomes, hybridization, microarray analysis, PARAHOX GENES
Current Genomics
Title:Current Status of Echinoderm Genome Analysis - What do we Know?
Volume: 13 Issue: 2
Author(s): Mariko Kondo, Koji Akasaka
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Keywords: Echinoderm, genome, sea urchin, morphology, fertilization, Telomere, sex chromosomes, hybridization, microarray analysis, PARAHOX GENES
Abstract:
Echinoderms have long served as model organisms for a variety of biological research, especially in the field of developmental biology. Although the genome of the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has been sequenced, it is the only echinoderm whose whole genome sequence has been reported. Nevertheless, data is rapidly accumulating on the chromosomes and genomic sequences of all five classes of echinoderms, including the mitochondrial genomes and Hox genes. This blossoming new data will be essential for estimating the phylogenetic relationships among echinoderms, and also to examine the underlying mechanisms by which the diverse morphologies of echinoderms have arisen.
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Mariko Kondo, Koji Akasaka , Current Status of Echinoderm Genome Analysis - What do we Know?, Current Genomics 2012; 13 (2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138920212799860643
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