Functional characterization of transcription factor motifs using cross-species comparison across large evolutionary distances

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kim, Jaebum ^a   Cunningham, Ryan ^a   James, Brian ^a   Wyder, Stefan ^b   Gibson, Joshua D ^c   Niehuis, Oliver ^d   Zdobnov, Evgeny M ^b   Robertson, Hugh M ^e   Robinson, Gene E ^e   Werren, John H ^f   Sinha, Saurabh ^a,e  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CROSS-SPECIES COMPARISONS; EVOLUTIONARY DISTANCE; FRUITFLIES; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GENE ANNOTATION; GENE SETS; NON-CODING SEQUENCES; REGULATORY MOTIFS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INSECT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HONEYBEE; INSECT GENOME; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SCORING SYSTEM; WASP; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WASPS;

EID: 76849088987     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000652     Document Type: Article

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