Ancient Expansion of the Hox Cluster in Lepidoptera Generated Four Homeobox Genes Implicated in Extra-Embryonic Tissue Formation

• Laura Ferguson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Ferguson, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Jean-Michel Carter

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Ferdinand Marlétaz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Ferguson, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Jean-Michel Carter

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Jean-Michel Carter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Ferguson, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Jean-Michel Carter

  Affiliation Evolutionary Developmental Biology Research Group, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• William R. Taylor,

  Affiliation MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom

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• Melanie Gibbs,

  Affiliation NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• Casper J. Breuker ,

  * E-mail: cbreuker@brookes.ac.uk (CJB); peter.holland@zoo.ox.ac.uk (PWHH)

  Affiliation Evolutionary Developmental Biology Research Group, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Peter W. H. Holland

  * E-mail: cbreuker@brookes.ac.uk (CJB); peter.holland@zoo.ox.ac.uk (PWHH)

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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