Evolution of gap junctions: the missing link?

Alexopoulos, Haris; Böttger, Angelika; Fischer, Sylvia; Levin, Alice; Wolf, Alexander; Fujisawa, Toshitaka; Hayakawa, Shiho; Gojobori, Takashi; Davies, Jane A; David, Charles N; Bacon, Jonathan

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 Bacon

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Current Biology

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0960-9822

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2004.09.067

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20

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14

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879-889

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Biology and Environmental Science Publications

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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.

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2012-02-06

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