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Evolution of gap junctions: the missing link?
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posted on 2023-06-07, 22:44 authored by Haris Alexopoulos, Angelika Böttger, Sylvia Fischer, Alice Levin, Alexander Wolf, Toshitaka Fujisawa, Shiho Hayakawa, Takashi Gojobori, Jane A Davies, Charles N David, Jonathan BaconNo description supplied
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Publication status
- Published
Journal
Current BiologyISSN
0960-9822External DOI
Issue
20Volume
14Page range
879-889Department affiliated with
- Biology and Environmental Science Publications
Notes
Surprisingly invertebrates have a different family of gap junction genes (innexins) than vertebrates (connexins). Our results demonstrate that diploblasts evolved innexins for gap-junctional communication, the connexins arose de novo in deuterostomes. Davies was co-supervisor of Alexopoulos.Full text available
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