Conserved regulatory sequences in Atoh7 mediate non-conserved regulatory responses in retina ontogenesis

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 3767-3777

  Skowronska Krawczyk, Dorota ^a,b   Chiodini, Florence ^a   Ebeling, Martin ^c   Alliod, Christine ^a   Kundzewicz, Adam ^a   Castro, Diogo ^d   Ballivet, Marc ^a   Guillemot, François ^d   Matter Sadzinski, Lidia ^a   Matter, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ath5; Chicken; Mouse; Neurogenin 2; Retinal ganglion cells; Trans acting environment

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN ATOH7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN BINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH CONE; KINETICS; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETINA;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMATIN; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURITES; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70450159851     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.033449     Document Type: Article

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