International Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 803142, 8 pages
doi:10.4061/2009/803142
Research Article

Elucidating the Evolutionary Relationships among Bos taurus Digestive Organs Using Unigene Expression Data

D. C. Beck,1 Honglin Jiang,2 and Liqing Zhang1

1Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 114 McBryde Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
2Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA

Received 28 July 2009; Accepted 5 December 2009

Academic Editor: Graziano Pesole

Copyright © 2009 D. C. Beck et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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