Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Conserved and species-specific chromatin remodeling and regulatory dynamics during mouse and chicken limb bud development

  • Shalu Jhanwar,
  • Jonas Malkmus,
  • Jens Stolte,
  • Olga Romashkina,
  • Aimée Zuniga,
  • Rolf Zeller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25935-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The vertebrate limb bud is a paradigm to uncover the fundamental mechanisms that govern embryogenesis and evolutionary diversification. Here the authors compare mouse and chicken limb bud development to study the impact of genome evolution on conserved and divergent gene regulatory interactions.