Enhancer turnover and conserved regulatory function in vertebrate evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1632, 2013, Pages

  Domené, Sabina ^a   Bumaschny, Viviana F ^a,b   de Souza, Flávio S J ^a,b   Franchini, Lucía F ^a   Nasif, Sofía ^a   Low, Malcolm J ^c   Rubinstein, Marcelo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Hypothalamus; Mammals; Proopiomelanocortin; Teleosts; Transgenic zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; MAMMAL; MUTATION; NEUROLOGY; TURNOVER;

POMC PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TELEOST; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC ZEBRAFISH; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAMMALS; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; TELEOSTS; TRANSGENIC ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUTATION; NEURONS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; VERTEBRATES; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84887418594     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0027     Document Type: Article

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