Transcription regulation and animal diversity

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6945, 2003, Pages 147-151

  Levine, Michael ^a   Tjian, Robert ^a,b  

^a Genomics Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES;

GENOMES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WORM; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037819447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01763     Document Type: Review

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