Evolution of hydra, a Recently Evolved Testis-Expressed Gene with Nine Alternative First Exons in Drosophila melanogaster

Shou-Tao Chen; Hsin-Chien Cheng; Daniel A Barbash; Hsiao-Pei Yang

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030107

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Evolution of hydra, a Recently Evolved Testis-Expressed Gene with Nine Alternative First Exons in Drosophila melanogaster

Shou-Tao Chen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Shou-Tao Chen, Hsin-Chien Cheng

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Hsin-Chien Cheng ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Shou-Tao Chen, Hsin-Chien Cheng

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Daniel A Barbash,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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Hsiao-Pei Yang

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hy31@cornell.edu

Affiliations Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China , Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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Evolution of hydra, a Recently Evolved Testis-Expressed Gene with Nine Alternative First Exons in Drosophila melanogaster

Shou-Tao Chen,
Hsin-Chien Cheng,
Daniel A Barbash,
Hsiao-Pei Yang

Published: July 6, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030107

About the Authors

Shou-Tao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shou-Tao Chen, Hsin-Chien Cheng

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Hsin-Chien Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Shou-Tao Chen, Hsin-Chien Cheng

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Daniel A Barbash

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Hsiao-Pei Yang

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hy31@cornell.edu

Affiliations Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China , Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

HPY designed the research. STC, HCC, DAB, and HPY performed the experiments. STC, HCC, and HPY analyzed the data. DAB and HPY wrote the paper.

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