Paper report

Doubling up the genome

Jeffrey T Ehmsen

  • Correspondence: Jeffrey T Ehmsen

Genome Biology 2002, 3:reports0045 doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-8-reports0045

Published: 1 August 2002

Abstract

The distribution of orthologous genes within the major histocompatibility complex paralogous regions of amphioxus and humans supports the idea of genome-wide duplication events in vertebrate evolution