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- Title
Transcription regulation and animal diversity.
- Authors
Levine, Michael; Tjian, Robert
- Abstract
Whole-genome sequence assemblies are now available for seven different animals, including nematode worms, mice and humans. Comparative genome analyses reveal a surprising constancy in genetic content: vertebrate genomes have only about twice the number of genes that invertebrate genomes have, and the increase is primarily due to the duplication of existing genes rather than the invention of new ones. How, then, has evolutionary diversity arisen? Emerging evidence suggests that organismal complexity arises from progressively more elaborate regulation of gene expression.
- Publication
Nature, 2003, Vol 424, Issue 6945, p147
- ISSN
1476-4687
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nature01763