Functional roles of Aves class-specific cis-regulatory elements on macroevolution of bird-specific features

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Seki, Ryohei ^a,b   Li, Cai ^c,d,e   Fang, Qi ^c,d   Hayashi, Shinichi ^b,f   Egawa, Shiro ^b   Hu, Jiang ^c   Xu, Luohao ^c   Pan, Hailin ^c,d   Kondo, Mao ^b   Sato, Tomohiko ^b   Matsubara, Haruka ^b   Kamiyama, Namiko ^b   Kitajima, Keiichi ^b   Saito, Daisuke ^b   Liu, Yang ^c   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^e,g   Zhou, Qi ^h   Xu, Xing ⁱ   Shiroishi, Toshihiko ^a   Irie, Naoki ^j   Tamura, Koji ^b   Zhang, Guojie ^c,d,k   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTOME; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIRD; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEATHER; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LIMB; PROTEIN; TETRAPOD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIRD; CHICKEN BREED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIS REGULATORY ELEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MACROEVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; TETRAPOD; WING; ANIMAL; DINOSAUR; FLYING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; TETRAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DINOSAURS; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; HISTONES; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 85011884569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14229     Document Type: Article

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