Reptiles and mammals have differentially retained long conserved noncoding sequences from the amniote ancestor

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-113

  Janes, D E ^a   Chapus, C ^b   Gondo, Y ^c   Clayton, D F ^d   Sinha, S ^d,e   Blatti, C A ^e   Organ, C L ^a   Fujita, M K ^a   Balakrishnan, C N ^d   Edwards, S V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UMR MD3   (France)

^c RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

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

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

Author keywords

Blast; Dosage compensation; Regulatory element; Reptile; Transcription factor binding site

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTA; ANOLIS; ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIRD; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FINCH; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LIZARD; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FINCHES; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LIZARDS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955043502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evq087     Document Type: Article

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