Nature Communications (Feb 2017)
Functional roles of Aves class-specific cis-regulatory elements on macroevolution of bird-specific features
- Ryohei Seki,
- Cai Li,
- Qi Fang,
- Shinichi Hayashi,
- Shiro Egawa,
- Jiang Hu,
- Luohao Xu,
- Hailin Pan,
- Mao Kondo,
- Tomohiko Sato,
- Haruka Matsubara,
- Namiko Kamiyama,
- Keiichi Kitajima,
- Daisuke Saito,
- Yang Liu,
- M. Thomas P. Gilbert,
- Qi Zhou,
- Xing Xu,
- Toshihiko Shiroishi,
- Naoki Irie,
- Koji Tamura,
- Guojie Zhang
Affiliations
- Ryohei Seki
- Mammalian Genetics Laboratory, Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics
- Cai Li
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qi Fang
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shinichi Hayashi
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Shiro Egawa
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Jiang Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Luohao Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hailin Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Mao Kondo
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Tomohiko Sato
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Haruka Matsubara
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Namiko Kamiyama
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Keiichi Kitajima
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Daisuke Saito
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Yang Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- M. Thomas P. Gilbert
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Qi Zhou
- Department of Integrative Biology University of California
- Xing Xu
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Toshihiko Shiroishi
- Mammalian Genetics Laboratory, Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics
- Naoki Irie
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
- Koji Tamura
- Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Guojie Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14229
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
The transition from non-avian dinosaurs to birds capable of powered flight represents a major evolutionary transition. Here the authors analyse 48 bird genomes and identify avian-specific highly conserved elements with roles in avian limb development.
