Evidence for stabilizing selection in a eukaryotic enhancer element

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6769, 2000, Pages 564-567

  Ludwig, Michael Z ^a   Bergman, Casey ^a   Patel, Nipam H ^b   KreLtman, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034598832     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000615     Document Type: Article

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