Cis-regulation of the amphioxus engrailed gene: Insights into evolution of a muscle-specific enhancer

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 124, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 532-542

  Beaster Jones, Laura ^a   Schubert, Michael ^b   Holland, Linda Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Branchiostoma; Ciona; Cis regulation; Conserved non coding DNA; Engrailed; Enhancer; Lancelet; Muscle evolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLES;

BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 34547196874     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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