Sequencing of Pax6 Loci from the Elephant Shark Reveals a Family of Pax6 Genes in Vertebrate Genomes, Forged by Ancient Duplications and Divergences

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ravi, Vydianathan ^a   Bhatia, Shipra ^b   Gautier, Philippe ^b   Loosli, Felix ^c   Tay, Boon Hui ^a   Tay, Alice ^a   Murdoch, Emma ^b   Coutinho, Pedro ^b   van Heyningen, Veronica ^b   Brenner, Sydney ^a   Venkatesh, Byrappa ^a   Kleinjan, Dirk A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALLORHINCHUS MILII; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PAX6 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHARK; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELEOST; TRANSGENICS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHARKS; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84873521387     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003177     Document Type: Article

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