The evolution of metazoan extracellular matrix

The modular domain structure of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and their genes has allowed extensive exon/domain shuffling during evolution to generate hundreds of ECM proteins. Many of these arose early during metazoan evolution and have been highly conserved ever since. Others have undergone...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hynes, Richard O.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308698/