Highly conserved elements discovered in vertebrates are present in non-syntenic loci of tunicates, act as enhancers and can be transcribed during development

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3600-3618

  Sanges, Remo ^a   Hadzhiev, Yavor ^b   Gueroult Bellone, Marion ^c,d   Roure, Agnes ^c,l   Ferg, Marco ^e   Meola, Nicola ^f   Amore, Gabriele ^a,m   Basu, Swaraj ^a   Brown, Euan R ^a,g   De Simone, Marco ^h   Petrera, Francesca ^h   Licastro, Danilo ^h   Strähle, Uwe ^e   Banfi, Sandro ^f,i   Lemaire, Patrick ^c,d   Birney, Ewan ^j   Müller, Ferenc ^b   Stupka, Elia ^k  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^g HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h CBM scrl Genomics Area Science Park   (Italy)

ⁱ SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^j EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^k SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^l LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^m Istituto Regionale Vini e Oli di Sicilia   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; DNA BINDING; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORES CONSERVED NONCODING ELEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTENY; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876044425     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt030     Document Type: Article

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