Shadow enhancers: Frequently asked questions about distributed cis‐regulatory information and enhancer redundancy

S Barolo - Bioessays, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper, in the form of a frequently asked questions page (FAQ), addresses outstanding
questions about “shadow enhancers”, quasi‐redundant cis‐regulatory elements, and their …

Cis-regulatory landscapes in the evolution and development of the mammalian skull

M Kaucka - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Extensive morphological variation found in mammals reflects the wide spectrum of their
ecological adaptations. The highest morphological diversity is present in the craniofacial …

Evolution of transcriptional enhancers and animal diversity

M Rubinstein, FSJ De Souza - … Transactions of the …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deciphering the genetic bases that drive animal diversity is one of the major challenges of
modern biology. Although four decades ago it was proposed that animal evolution was …

Targeted transgene integration overcomes variability of position effects in zebrafish

JA Roberts, I Miguel-Escalada, KJ Slovik… - …, 2014‏ - journals.biologists.com
Zebrafish transgenesis is increasingly popular owing to the optical transparency and
external development of embryos, which provide a scalable vertebrate model for in vivo …

Regulatory interactions specifying Kolmer-Agduhr interneurons

L Yang, S Rastegar, U Strähle - Development, 2010‏ - journals.biologists.com
In the zebrafish spinal cord, two classes of neurons develop from the lateral floor plate:
Kolmer-Agduhr′(KA′) and V3 interneurons. We show here that the differentiation of the …

Cis-regulatory evolution of the recently expanded Ly49 gene family

C Fan, X **ng, SJH Murphy, J Poursine-Laurent… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Comparative genomics has revealed the rapid expansion of multiple gene families involved
in immunity. Members within each gene family often evolved distinct roles in immunity …

Evolutionary Genomics and Adaptive Evolution of the Hedgehog Gene Family (Shh, Ihh and Dhh) in Vertebrates

J Pereira, WE Johnson, SJ O'Brien, ED Jarvis… - PloS one, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
The Hedgehog (Hh) gene family codes for a class of secreted proteins composed of two
active domains that act as signalling molecules during embryo development, namely for the …

[HTML][HTML] The words of the regulatory code are arranged in a variable manner in highly conserved enhancers

S Rastegar, I Hess, T Dickmeis, JC Nicod, R Ertzer… - Developmental …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The cis-regulatory regions of many developmental regulators and transcription factors are
believed to be highly conserved in the genomes of vertebrate species, suggesting specific …

Analysis of the transcriptome of the Indonesian coelacanth Latimeria menadoensis

A Pallavicini, A Canapa, M Barucca, J Alfőldi… - BMC genomics, 2013‏ - Springer
Background Latimeria menadoensis is a coelacanth species first identified in 1997 in
Indonesia, at 10,000 Km of distance from its African congener. To date, only six specimens …

[HTML][HTML] Cis-regulation and chromosomal rearrangement of the fgf8 locus after the teleost/tetrapod split

AZ Komisarczuk, K Kawakami, TS Becker - Developmental biology, 2009‏ - Elsevier
The complex expression pattern of fibroblast growth factor 8 (Fgf8) and the cellular
responses dependent on concentration of its mRNA in vertebrates suggest that Fgf8 should …