Highly conserved non-coding sequences are associated with vertebrate development.

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Published in PLoS Biol on November 11, 2004

Authors

Adam Woolfe1, Martin Goodson, Debbie K Goode, Phil Snell, Gayle K McEwen, Tanya Vavouri, Sarah F Smith, Phil North, Heather Callaway, Krys Kelly, Klaudia Walter, Irina Abnizova, Walter Gilks, Yvonne J K Edwards, Julie E Cooke, Greg Elgar

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1: Medical Research Council Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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