Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7141, 2007, Pages 167-177

  Mikkelsen, Tarjei S ^a,b   Wakefield, Matthew J ^c   Aken, Bronwen ^d   Amemiya, Chris T ^e   Chang, Jean L ^a   Duke, Shannon ^f   Garber, Manuel ^a   Gentles, Andrew J ^g,h   Goodstadt, Leo ⁱ   Heger, Andreas ⁱ   Jurka, Jerzy ^h   Kamal, Michael ^a   Mauceli, Evan ^a   Searle, Stephen M J ^d   Sharpe, Ted ^a   Baker, Michelle L ^j   Batzer, Mark A ^k   Benos, Panayiotis V ^l   Belov, Katherine ^m   Clamp, Michele ^a   Cook, April ^a   Cuff, James ^a   Das, Radhika ⁿ   Davidow, Lance ^o,z   Deakin, Janine E ^p   Fazzari, Melissa J ^q   Glass, Jacob L ^q   Grabherr, Manfred ^a   Greally, John M ^q   Gu, Wanjun ^r   Hore, Timothy A ^p   Huttley, Gavin A ^s   Kleber, Michael ^a   Jirtle, Randy L ⁿ   Koina, Edda ^p   Lee, Jeannie T ^o,z   Mahony, Shaun ^l   Marra, Marco A ^t   Miller, Robert D ^j   Nicholls, Robert D ^u   Oda, Mayumi ^q   Papenfuss, Anthony T ^c   Parra, Zuly E ^j   Pollock, David D ^r   Ray, David A ^v   Schein, Jacqueline E ^t   Speed, Terence P ^c   Thompson, Katherine ^p   VandeBerg, John L ^w   Wade, Claire M ^a,o   Walker, Jerilyn A ^k   Waters, Paul D ^p   Webber, Caleb ⁱ   Weidman, Jennifer R ⁿ   Xie, Xiaohui ^a   Zody, Michael C ^a   Baldwin, Jennifer ^a   Abdouelleil, Amr ^a   Abdulkadir, Jamal ^a   Abebe, Adal ^a   Abera, Brikti ^a   Abreu, Justin ^a   Acer, St Christophe ^a   Aftuck, Lynne ^a   Alexander, Allen ^a   An, Peter ^a   Anderson, Erica ^a   Anderson, Scott ^a   Arachi, Harindra ^a   Azer, Marc ^a   Bachantsang, Pasang ^a   Barry, Andrew ^a   Bayul, Tashi ^a   Berlin, Aaron ^a   Bessette, Daniel ^a   Bloom, Toby ^a   Blye, Jason ^a   Boguslavskiy, Leonid ^a   Bonnet, Claude ^a   Boukhgalter, Boris ^a   Bourzgui, Imane ^a   Brown, Adam ^a   Cahill, Patrick ^a   Channer, Sheridon ^a   Cheshatsang, Yama ^a   Chuda, Lisa ^a   Citroen, Mieke ^a   Collymore, Alville ^a   Cooke, Patrick ^a   Costello, Maura ^a   D'Aco, Katie ^a   Daza, Riza ^a   De Haan, Georgius ^a   DeGray, Stuart ^a   DeMaso, Christina ^a   Dhargay, Norbu ^a   Dooley, Kimberly ^a   Dooley, Erin ^a   Doricent, Missole ^a   Dorje, Passang ^a   Dorjee, Kunsang ^a   Dupes, Alan ^a   Elong, Richard ^a   Falk, Jill ^a   Farina, Abderrahim ^a   Faro, Susan ^a   Ferguson, Diallo ^a   Fisher, Sheila ^a   Foley, Chelsea D ^a   Franke, Alicia ^a   Friedrich, Dennis ^a   Gadbois, Loryn ^a   Gearin, Gary ^a   Gearin, Christina R ^a   Giannoukos, Georgia ^a   Goode, Tina ^a   Graham, Joseph ^a   Grandbois, Edward ^a   Grewal, Sharleen ^a   Gyaltsen, Kunsang ^a   Hafez, Nabil ^a   Hagos, Birhane ^a   Hall, Jennifer ^a   Henson, Charlotte ^a   Hollinger, Andrew ^a   Honan, Tracey ^a   Huard, Monika D ^a   Hughes, Leanne ^a   Hurhula, Brian ^a   Husby, M Erii ^a   Kamat, Asha ^a   Kanga, Ben ^a   Kashin, Seva ^a   Khazanovich, Dmitry ^a   Kisner, Peter ^a   Lance, Krista ^a   Lara, Marcia ^a   Lee, William ^a   Lennon, Niall ^a   Letendre, Frances ^a   LeVine, Rosie ^a   Lipovsky, Alex ^a   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Liu, Jinlei ^a   Liu, Shangtao ^a   Lokyitsang, Tashi ^a   Lokyitsang, Yeshi ^a   Lubonja, Rakela ^a   Lui, Annie ^a   MacDonald, Pen ^a   Magnisalis, Vasilia ^a   Maru, Kebede ^a   Matthews, Charles ^a   McCusker, William ^a   McDonough, Susan ^a   Mehta, Teena ^a   Meldrim, James ^a   Meneus, Louis ^a   Mihai, Oana ^a   Mihalev, Atanas ^a   Mihova, Tanya ^a   Mittelman, Rachel ^a   Mlenga, Valentine ^a   Montmayeur, Anna ^a   Mulrain, Leonidas ^a   Navidi, Adam ^a   Naylor, Jerome ^a   Negash, Tamrat ^a   Nguyen, Thu ^a   Nguyen, Nga ^a   Nicol, Robert ^a   Norbu, Choe ^a   Norbu, Nyima ^a   Novod, Nathaniel ^a   O'Neill, Barry ^a   Osman, Sahal ^a   Markiewicz, Eva ^a   Oyono, Otero L ^a   Patti, Christopher ^a   Phunkhang, Pema ^a   Pierre, Fritz ^a   Priest, Margaret ^a   Raghuraman, Sujaa ^a   Rege, Filip ^a   Reyes, Rebecca ^a   Rise, Cecil ^a   Rogov, Peter ^a   Ross, Keenan ^a   Ryan, Elizabeth ^a   Settipalli, Sampath ^a   Shea, Terry ^a   Sherpa, Ngawang ^a   Shi, Lu ^a   Shih, Diana ^a   Sparrow, Todd ^a   Spaulding, Jessica ^a   Stalker, John ^a   Stange Thomann, Nicole ^a   Stavropoulos, Sharon ^a   Stone, Catherine ^a   Strader, Christopher ^a   Tesfaye, Senait ^a   Thomson, Talene ^a   Thoulutsang, Yama ^a   Thoulutsang, Dawa ^a   Topham, Kerri ^a   Topping, Ira ^a   Tsamla, Tsamla ^a   Vassiliev, Helen ^a   Vo, Andy ^a   Wangchuk, Tsering ^a   Wangdi, Tsering ^a   Weiand, Michael ^a   Wilkinson, Jane ^a   Wilson, Adam ^a   Yadav, Shailendra ^a   Young, Geneva ^a   Yu, Qing ^a   Zembek, Lisa ^a   Zhong, Danni ^a   Zimmer, Andrew ^a   Zwirko, Zac ^a   Jaffe, David B ^a   Alvarez, Pablo ^a   Brockman, Will ^a   Butler, Jonathan ^a   Chin, CheeWhye ^a   Gnerre, Sante ^a   MacCallum, Iain ^a   Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^p   Ponting, Chris P ⁱ   Breen, Matthew ^f   Samollow, Paul B ^x   Lander, Eric S ^a,y   Lindblad Toh, Kerstin ^a   more..

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Genetic Information Research Institute   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^k LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

ⁿ DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^o MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^p AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^q ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^s Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^t BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^u CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^v WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^x TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^z HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MARSUPIAL;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 34248576291     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05805     Document Type: Article

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