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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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  • Published

Journal

Current Biology

ISSN

0960-9822

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Issue

20

Volume

14

Page range

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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