Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

Genome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1235-1247

  Simola, Daniel F ^a,q   Wissler, Lothar ^b,q   Donahue, Greg ^a   Waterhouse, Robert M ^c   Helmkampf, Martin ^d   Roux, Julien ^a,e   Nygaard, Sanne ^f   Glastad, Karl M ^g   Hagen, Darren E ^h,s   Viljakainen, Lumi ⁱ   Reese, Justin T ^h,r   Hunt, Brendan G ^g   Graur, Dan ^j   Elhaik, Eran ^k,l   Kriventseva, Evgenia V ^c   Wen, Jiayu ^f   Parker, Brian J ^f   Cash, Elizabeth ^d   Privman, Eyal ^e   Childers, Christopher P ^h,s   Munoz Torres, Monica C ^h   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^f   Bornberg Bauer, Erich ^b   Currie, Cameron R ^m   Elsik, Christine G ^h,t   Suen, Garret ^f   Goodisman, Michael A D ^g   Keller, Laurent ^e   Liebig, Jürgen ^d   Rawls, Alan ^d   Reinberg, Danny ⁿ   Smith, Chris D ⁿ   Smith, Chris R ^o   Tsutsui, Neil ^p   Wurm, Yannick ^e,s   Zdobnov, Evgeny M ^c   Berger, Shelley L ^a   Gadau, Jürgen ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^j University of Houston   (United States)

^k JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^l JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁿ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^t QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; CYTOCHROME; GENOMIC DNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANT; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT GENOME; INSECT SOCIETY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SYNTENY;

EID: 84881151042     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.155408.113     Document Type: Article

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