Comparative genomics of gene regulation-conservation and divergence of cis-regulatory information

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 565-570

  Meireles Filho, Antonio CA ^a   Stark, Alexander ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 71749103442     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2009.10.006     Document Type: Review

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