Accelerated recruitment of new brain development genes into the human genome

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Yong E ^a   Landback, Patrick ^a   Vibranovski, Maria D ^a   Long, Manyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 80055025720     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001179     Document Type: Article

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