Diversification and Molecular Evolution of ATOH8, a Gene Encoding a bHLH Transcription Factor

• Jingchen Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingchen Chen, Fangping Dai

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Fangping Dai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingchen Chen, Fangping Dai

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Embryology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

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• Ajeesh Balakrishnan-Renuka,

  Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Faculty of Biology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

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• Florian Leese,

  Current address: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Werner Schempp,

  Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

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• Felix Schaller,

  Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

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• Michael M. Hoffmann,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

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• Gabriela Morosan-Puopolo,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Faisal Yusuf,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Izak Johannes Bisschoff,

  Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

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• Verena Chankiewitz,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Jinglun Xue,

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Jingzhong Chen,

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Kang Ying,

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Beate Brand-Saberi

  * E-mail: Beate.Brand-Saberi@rub.de

  Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Molecular Embryology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Department of Molecular Embryology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany

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