Shared Enhancer Activity in the Limbs and Phallus and Functional Divergence of a Limb-Genital cis-Regulatory Element in Snakes

Developmental Cell

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 107-119

  Infante, Carlos R ^a   Mihala, Alexandra G ^a   Park, Sungdae ^a   Wang, Jialiang S ^a   Johnson, Kenji K ^b   Lauderdale, James D ^a,b   Menke, Douglas B ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; CIS REGULATORY ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TBX4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANOLIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOME; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SNAKE; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIMB; LIZARD; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIZARDS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGANOGENESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SNAKES; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 84945255277     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.09.003     Document Type: Article

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