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Syntenies of Unrelated Genes Conserved in Mammals and Nonvertebrates (A Review)

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Comparative Genomics

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We review findings of nonrandom distribution of genes in animal genomes across large genetic distances (billions of years). While the gene organization of more closely related animals (such as vertebrates) is known to be similar, much less have been published on comparative mapping of genes across large genetic distances and only a few reports pay attention to synteny analysis of genes unrelated by sequence and function.

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  1. Department of Mammalian Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Videnska 1083, 142 20, Prague 4, Czech Republic

    Zdenek Trachtulec & Jirí Forejt

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  1. Université de Montréal, Canada

    David Sankoff

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Trachtulec, Z., Forejt, J. (2000). Syntenies of Unrelated Genes Conserved in Mammals and Nonvertebrates (A Review). In: Sankoff, D., Nadeau, J.H. (eds) Comparative Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4309-7_33

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