Dissecting sources of quantitative gene expression pattern divergence between Drosophila species

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wunderlich, Zeba ^a   Bragdon, Meghan D ^a   Eckenrode, Kelly B ^a   Lydiard Martin, Tara ^a   Pearl Waserman, Sivanne ^a   Depace, Angela H ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cis regulatory elements; gene expression divergence; transcriptional regulatory network

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; CIS REGULATORY ELEMENT; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLASTODERM; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLASTODERM; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84868272807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2012.35     Document Type: Article

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