Evolutionary plasticity of polycomb/trithorax response elements in Drosophila species

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2130-2143

  Hauenschild, Arne ^a   Ringrose, Leonie ^b,c   Altmutter, Christina ^b   Paro, Renato ^c,d   Rehmsmeier, Marc ^a,e  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; POLYCOMB TRITHORAX RESPONSE ELEMENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BMI1 PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRITHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54949151898     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060261     Document Type: Article

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