Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements in metazoans

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1632, 2013, Pages

  Maeso, Ignacio ^a   Irimia, Manuel ^b   Tena, Juan J ^c   Casares, Fernando ^c   Gómez Skarmeta, José Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Universidad Pablo de Olavide   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cis regulatory element; Development; Evolution; Gene regulatory networks

Indexed keywords

COMMON ANCESTRY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; METAZOAN; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENT; DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENT; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPIGENOMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84887450841     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0020     Document Type: Article

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