Evolution of a genomic regulatory domain: The role of gene co-option and gene duplication in the enhancer of split complex

Genome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 917-928

  Duncan, Elizabeth J ^a   Dearden, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NOTCH RECEPTOR;

APHID; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HONEYBEE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BEES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77954231167     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.104794.109     Document Type: Article

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