Genome Biology
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MinireviewWhere is the difference between the genomes of humans and annelids?Alexei Fedorov1,2  and Larisa Fedorova1 1Department of Medicine, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH 43614, USA 2Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH 43614, USA  author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2006,
7:203doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-1-203
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Subject areas: Evolution, Genetics, Genome studies Abstract
The first systematic investigation of an annelid genome has revealed that the genes of the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii are more closely related to those of vertebrates than to those of insects or nematodes. For hundreds of millions of years vertebrates have preserved exon-intron structures descended from their last common ancestor with the annelids. | 
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