Conserved co-regulation and promoter sharing of hoxb3a and hoxb4a in zebrafish

Developmental Biology

Volumn 297, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-43

  Hadrys, Thorsten ^a,b   Punnamoottil, Beena ^b   Pieper, Mareike ^b   Kikuta, Hiroshi ^c   Pezeron, Guillaume ^d   Becker, Thomas S ^c   Prince, Victoria ^e   Baker, Robert ^a   Rinkwitz, Silke ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

cis regulation; Conserved non coding sequences; Enhancer detection; Exon sharing; Genome; Hindbrain; Hox; Micro RNA; miR 10b; Transcription; Transient transgenics

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN HOXB3A; PROTEIN HOXB4A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMERE; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 33748031415     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.04.446     Document Type: Article

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