Bat Accelerated Regions Identify a Bat Forelimb Specific Enhancer in the HoxD Locus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Booker, Betty M ^a   Friedrich, Tara ^a,b   Mason, Mandy K ^c   VanderMeer, Julia E ^a   Zhao, Jingjing ^a,d   Eckalbar, Walter L ^a   Logan, Malcolm ^e,f   Illing, Nicola ^c   Pollard, Katherine S ^a,b   Ahituv, Nadav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GLADSTONE INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d China   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E1A ASSOCIATED P300 PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXD10 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOXD13 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HINDLIMB; HOXD GENE; HOXD10 GENE; HOXD11 GENE; HOXD12 GENE; HOXD13 GENE; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MINIOPTERUS NATALENSIS; MOUSE; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE; WING;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; ORGANOGENESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84962355549     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005738     Document Type: Article

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