Nature Communications (Dec 2017)
Reading and editing the Pleurodeles waltl genome reveals novel features of tetrapod regeneration
- Ahmed Elewa,
- Heng Wang,
- Carlos Talavera-López,
- Alberto Joven,
- Gonçalo Brito,
- Anoop Kumar,
- L. Shahul Hameed,
- May Penrad-Mobayed,
- Zeyu Yao,
- Neda Zamani,
- Yamen Abbas,
- Ilgar Abdullayev,
- Rickard Sandberg,
- Manfred Grabherr,
- Björn Andersson,
- András Simon
Affiliations
- Ahmed Elewa
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- Heng Wang
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Carlos Talavera-López
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- Alberto Joven
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- Gonçalo Brito
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- Anoop Kumar
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- L. Shahul Hameed
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- May Penrad-Mobayed
- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS & University Paris-Diderot
- Zeyu Yao
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- Neda Zamani
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University
- Yamen Abbas
- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University
- Ilgar Abdullayev
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- Rickard Sandberg
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- Manfred Grabherr
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University
- Björn Andersson
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- András Simon
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01964-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The Iberian ribbed newt Pleurodeles waltl has a wide spectrum of regeneration abilities. Here, Elewa et al. sequence its ~20 Gb genome and transcriptome to investigate the molecular features underlying its regenerative capacities.