The earliest transcribed zygotic genes are short, newly evolved, and different across species

Cell Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 285-292

  Heyn, Patricia ^a   Kircher, Martin ^b,d   Dahl, Andreas ^c   Kelso, Janet ^b   Tomancak, Pavel ^a   Kalinka, Alex T ^a,f   Neugebauer, Karla M ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Vetmeduni Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTIC GENE;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEBRAFISH; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84895904232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.12.030     Document Type: Article

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