An ancient genomic regulatory block conserved across bilaterians and its dismantling in tetrapods by retrogene replacement

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 642-655

  Maeso, Ignacio ^a,f   Irimia, Manuel ^a,g   Tena, Juan J ^b   González Pérez, Esther ^c   Tran, David ^d,e   Ravi, Vydianathan ^d   Venkatesh, Byrappa ^d,e   Campuzano, Sonsoles ^c   Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^b   Garcia Fernàndez, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Universidad Pablo de Olavide   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILATERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMIC REGULATORY BLOCK; HOMEOBOX; INTRON; IROQUOIS GENE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; SOWAH GENE; TELEOST; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECTS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

BILATERIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; HEXAPODA; METAZOA; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859541999     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.132233.111     Document Type: Article

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