Evolutionary mirages: Selection on binding site composition creates the illusion of conserved grammars in Drosophila enhancers

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lusk, Richard W ^a   Eisen, Michael B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; GRAMMAR; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 76749088015     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000829     Document Type: Article

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