Genomic regulatory blocks underlie extensive microsynteny conservation in insects

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1898-1908

  Engström, Pär G ^a,b   Sui, Shannan J Ho ^c   Drivenes, Øyvind ^a   Becker, Thomas S ^a   Lenhard, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SYNTENY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REGULATOR; GENOME, INSECT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SYNTENY;

EID: 38849112675     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6669607     Document Type: Article

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