Evidence for an epigenetic mechanism by which Hsp90 acts as a capacitor for morphological evolution

Nature Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-74

  Sollars, Vincent ^a   Lu, Xiangyi ^b   Xiao, Li ^b   Wang, Xiaoyan ^c   Garfinkel, Mark D ^b   Ruden, Douglas M ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; MORPHOGEN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; INBRED STRAIN; INSECT GENETICS; KIN SELECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS); WING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037228526     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1067     Document Type: Article

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