Coevolution within and between Regulatory Loci Can Preserve Promoter Function Despite Evolutionary Rate Acceleration

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Barrière, Antoine ^a   Gordon, Kacy L ^b   Ruvinsky, Ilya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIS REGULATORY ELEMENT; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPISTASIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; UNC 47 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84866943831     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002961     Document Type: Article

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