A single enhancer regulating the differential expression of duplicated red-sensitive opsin genes in Zebrafish

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Tsujimura, Taro ^a,b   Hosoya, Tomohiro ^a   Kawamura, Shoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; CONE OPSIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; RETINA; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; DUPLICATE GENE; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONE OPSINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DUPLICATE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 78650705215     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001245     Document Type: Article

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