Convergent evolution of two mammalian neuronal enhancers by sequential exaptation of unrelated retroposons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 15270-15275

  Franchini, Lucía F ^a   López Leal, Rodrigo ^b   Nasif, Sofía ^a   Beati, Paula ^a   Gelman, Diego M ^a   Low, Malcolm J ^c   De Souza, Flávio J S ^a,d   Rubinstein, Marcelo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Obesity; Retroposition; Retrotransposition; Satiety; Shadow enhancer

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIENCEPHALON; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NPE1 GENE; NPE2 GENE; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RETROELEMENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EUTHERIA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; MYA; PROTOTHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053067142     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1104997108     Document Type: Article

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