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The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss

David J Miller1, Georg Hemmrich2, Eldon E Ball3, David C Hayward3, Konstantin Khalturin2, Noriko Funayama4, Kiyokazu Agata4 and Thomas CG Bosch2*

Author Affiliations

1 ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies and Comparative Genomics Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia

2 Zoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Olshausenstrasse, 24098 Kiel, Germany

3 ARC Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

4 Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R59 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-r59

Published: 16 April 2007

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Accession numbers for additional sequences identified within the database searches that were not further characterized in the present study

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