Divergent gene expression in the conserved dauer stage of the nematodes Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sinha, Amit ^a   Sommer, Ralf J ^a   Dieterich, Christoph ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dauer larvae; Developmental systems drift; Evolution of gene regulation; Horizontal gene transfer; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORPHAN GENE; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS; SAMPLE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; LARVA; NEMATODA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 84862303959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-254     Document Type: Article

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