Topological Domains, Metagenes, and the Emergence of Pleiotropic Regulations at Hox Loci

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 116, Issue , 2016, Pages 299-314

  Darbellay, Fabrice ^a   Duboule, Denis ^a,b  

^a Federal University of Technology Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution of regulations; Hox gene function; Long range transcription; Pioneer enhancers; TADs

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HOMEOBOX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOME; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN DOMAINS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84955602762     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2015.11.022     Document Type: Chapter

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