A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-90

  Bejerano, Gill ^a   Lowe, Craig B ^a   Ahituv, Nadav ^b,c   King, Bryan ^a,d   Siepel, Adam ^a,e   Salama, Sofie R ^a,d   Rubin, Edward M ^b,c   Kent, W James ^a   Haussler, David ^a,d  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; RNA; NATURAL SCIENCES; PROTEINS;

INVERTEBRATES; SARCOPTERYGIAN GENES; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE ELEMENT (SINE) RETROPOSON; RNA PROCESSING GENE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE ELEMENT (SINE); ULTRACONSERVED REGION; VERTEBRATE GENOMES;

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA;

FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOMICS; RNA; SILURIAN; TETRAPOD; BIOASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FINFISH; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; EXON; FISH; FOSSIL; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; ISL1 GENE; LATIMERIA MENADOENSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PCBP2 GENE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SILURIAN; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; RNA PROCESSING; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

INVERTEBRATA; LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE; LATIMERIA MENADOENSIS; MAMMALIA; PISCES; SARCOPTERYGII; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; FOSSILS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 33646928347     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04696     Document Type: Article

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