The phylogenetic distribution of metazoa
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Lorenzo F. Sempere; Charles N. Cole; Mark A. Mcpeek; Kevin J. Peterson
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract How complex body plans evolved in animals such as fruit flies and vertebrates, as compared to the relatively simple jellyfish and sponges, is not known, given the similarity of developmental genetic repertoires shared by all these taxa. Here, we show that a core set of 18 microRNAs (miR