Noncoding regulatory sequences of Ciona exhibit strong correspondence between evolutionary constraint and functional importance

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2448-2456

  Johnson, David S ^a   Davidson, Brad ^b   Brown, Christopher D ^a   Smith, William C ^c   Sidow, Arend ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; TROPONIN I;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPONIN I;

ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI;

EID: 10944248926     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2964504     Document Type: Article

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