The evolution of cichlid fish egg-spots is linked with a cis-regulatory change

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Santos, M Emília ^a,d   Braasch, Ingo ^b   Boileau, Nicolas ^a   Meyer, Britta S ^a,e   Sauteur, Loïc ^c   Böhne, Astrid ^a   Belting, Heinz Georg ^c   Affolter, Markus ^c   Salzburger, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; EGG; GENOMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PIGMENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CIS REGULATORY ELEMENT; COLOR; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EGG SPOT; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; FHL2A GENE; FHL2B GENE; FIN (ORGAN); FISH GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PIGMENT CELL; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSGENIC ZEBRAFISH; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYTE; PIGMENTATION; ZEBRA FISH;

CICHLIDAE; DANIO RERIO;

LIM PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CICHLIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIM DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; PIGMENTATION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84911454495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6149     Document Type: Article

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