Evolution of Gene Expression

The Princeton Guide to Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 415-421

  Wittkopp, Patricia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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References (7)

1. Carroll, S. B. 2005. Evolution at two levels: On genes and form. PLoS Biology 3: e245. In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the seminal work of King and Wilson, who provided some of the earliest experimental evidence of the importance of changes in gene expression for evolution, one of the current leaders of the evo-devo field takes a look at the experimental evidence supporting this assertion today.
2. Carroll, S. B., J. K. Grenier, and S. D. Weatherbee. 2004. From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley- Blackwell. This book describes the central role of gene regulation in development and evolution with accessible discussions of specific case studies beautifully illustrated.
3. Davidson, E. H. 2006. The Regulatory Genome: Gene Reg-ulatory Networks in Development and Evolution. San Diego, CA: Academic. This book provides a comprehensive summary of the data and logic behind the assertion that gene regulatory networks are essential for develop¬ment and play a critical role in evolution.
4. Halder, G., P. Callaerts, and W. J. Gehring. 1995. Induction of ectopic eyes by targeted expression of the eyeless gene in Drosophila. Science 267: 1788-1792. This landmark study demonstrated the remarkable conservation of regulatory proteins by showing that homologous genes from species as diverse as fruit flies, mice, and humans all had similar effects on development when introduced into the fruit fly.
5. Stern, D. L. and V. Orgogozo. 2008. The loci of evolution: How predictable is genetic evolution? Evolution 62: 2155-2177. After clearly describing the rationale and alternative models for regulatory evolution, this review provides the most thorough summary to date of studies identifying the types of genetic changes responsible for a divergent phenotype, contrasting the relative frequency of changes attributable to coding and to regulatory mutations.
6. Wittkopp, P. J., and G. Kalay. 2012. Cis-regulatory elements: Molecular mechanisms and evolutionary processes un-derlying divergence. Nature Reviews Genetics 13: 59-69. This review uses data from case studies revealing the genetic and molecular changes responsible for divergent cis regulatory sequences to examine how these types of sequences evolve and to gain insights into more general questions about the mechanisms of evolution.
7. Wray, G. A., M. W. Hahn, E. Abouheif, J. P. Balhoff, M. Pizer, M. V. Rockman, and L. A. Ramano. 2003. The evolution of transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 1377-1419. Despite being nearly a decade old, this review remains one of the most complete discussions of the mechanics of gene regulation and its relationship to evolution.