Core and region-enriched networks of behaviorally regulated genes and the singing genome

Science

Volumn 346, Issue 6215, 2014, Pages

  Whitney, Osceola ^a   Pfenning, Andreas R ^a,b   Howard, Jason T ^a   Blatti, Charles A ^c   Liu, Fang ^a   Ward, James M ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Audet, Jean Nicoles ^d   Kellis, Manolis ^b   Mukherjee, Sayan ^e   Sinha, Saurabh ^c   Hartemink, Alexander J ^f   West, Anne E ^a   Jarvis, Erich D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Computer Science University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; AVIAN PROTEIN; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANATOMY; GENE EXPRESSION; REGULATORY APPROACH; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HISTONE ACETYLATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGING; SINGING REGULATED GENE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ACETYLATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; FINCH; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BRAIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; HISTONES; MALE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84917710714     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1256780     Document Type: Article

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