Evidence for deep regulatory similarities in early developmental programs across highly diverged insects

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2301-2320

  Kazemian, Majid ^a,b   Suryamohan, Kushal ^c,d   Chen, Jia Yu ^a   Zhang, Yinan ^a   Samee, Md Abul Hassan ^a   Halfon, Marc S ^c,d,e   Sinha, Saurabh ^a,f  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment free enhancer prediction; Cross species enhancer discovery; Regulatory modules in diverged insects

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923142712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu184     Document Type: Article

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