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The trees also suggest that the gene duplications that produced the three vertebrate Runx genes occurred early in the chordate lineage leading to vertebrates, but subsequent to its divergence from urochordates.
. In the past few years, however, work in other vertebrate and nonvertebrate chordate systems has come to play an important role in the field and has shed light on generalities and differences among chordates.
We found no evidence (as would be indicated by cDNA clones or ESTs) in the database for alternative promoter usage among any of the invertebrate Runx genes examined, suggesting that alternative promoters may have evolved in the chordate lineage leading to vertebrates, subsequent to its divergence from urochordates.
Upstream of the Runt domain, TrRunx1 is predicted to have two short introns that are not found in its mouse orthologue ( MmRunx1 ) or in any of the other chordate Runx genes.
All of the chordate Runx genes (including CiRunt ) contain an intron within the N-terminal half of the Runt domain, the position of which is invariant with respect to nucleotide sequence.