Early evolution of conserved regulatory sequences associated with development in vertebrates

GK McEwen, DK Goode, HJ Parker, A Woolfe… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Comparisons between diverse vertebrate genomes have uncovered thousands of highly
conserved non-coding sequences, an increasing number of which have been shown to …

A reporter assay in lamprey embryos reveals both functional conservation and elaboration of vertebrate enhancers

HJ Parker, T Sauka-Spengler, M Bronner, G Elgar - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The sea lamprey is an important model organism for investigating the evolutionary origins of
vertebrates. As more vertebrate genome sequences are obtained, evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic human/zebrafish comparative identification of cis-regulatory activity around vertebrate developmental transcription factor genes

P Navratilova, D Fredman, TA Hawkins, K Turner… - Developmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Pan-vertebrate developmental cis-regulatory elements are discernible as highly conserved
noncoding elements (HCNEs) and are often dispersed over large areas around the …

Functional genetic analysis in a jawless vertebrate, the sea lamprey: insights into the developmental evolution of early vertebrates

JR York, DW McCauley - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Lampreys and hagfishes are the only surviving relicts of an ancient but ecologically
dominant group of jawless fishes that evolved in the seas of the Cambrian era over half a …

New technologies, new findings, and new concepts in the study of vertebrate cis‐regulatory sequences

JL Gómez‐Skarmeta, B Lenhard… - … dynamics: an official …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
All vertebrates share a similar early embryonic body plan and use the same regulatory
genes for their development. The availability of numerous sequenced vertebrate genomes …

CONDOR: a database resource of developmentally associated conserved non-coding elements

A Woolfe, DK Goode, J Cooke, H Callaway… - BMC developmental …, 2007 - Springer
Background Comparative genomics is currently one of the most popular approaches to
study the regulatory architecture of vertebrate genomes. Fish-mammal genomic …

Developmental mechanisms and cis-regulatory codes

A Ochoa-Espinosa, S Small - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2006 - Elsevier
Complex networks of transcriptional interactions control the processes of animal
development. These networks begin with broad positional information that patterns the cells …

Shuffling of cis-regulatory elements is a pervasive feature of the vertebrate lineage

R Sanges, E Kalmar, P Claudiani, M D'Amato, F Muller… - Genome biology, 2006 - Springer
Background All vertebrates share a remarkable degree of similarity in their development as
well as in the basic functions of their cells. Despite this, attempts at unearthing genome-wide …

The importance of being cis: evolution of orthologous fish and mammalian enhancer activity

DI Ritter, Q Li, D Kostka, KS Pollard… - Molecular biology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Conserved noncoding elements (CNEs) in vertebrate genomes often act as developmental
enhancers, but a critical issue is how well orthologous CNE sequences retain the same …

DNA conserved in diverse animals since the Precambrian controls genes for embryonic development

MC Frith, S Ni - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
DNA that controls gene expression (eg enhancers, promoters) has seemed almost never to
be conserved between distantly related animals, like vertebrates and arthropods. This is …