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Beyond silence : a functional and evolutionary study of KRAB zinc finger proteins

Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic units capable of spreading within the genomes of their host. TEs contribute a readily recognizable 45% of the human DNA, reflecting in part their co-option for some as source of protein-coding sequences, for others a ...

EPFL2019

Reverse-engineering the locomotion of a stem amniote

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Tomislav Horvat, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis

Reconstructing the locomotion of extinct vertebrates offers insights into their palaeobiology and helps to conceptualize major transitions in vertebrate evolution. However, estimating the locomotor behaviour of a fossil species remains a challenge because ...

2019

From the Cover: Zebrafish Larvae Are Insensitive to Stimulation by Cocaine: Importance of Exposure Route and Toxicokinetics

Kristin Schirmer, Julita Maria Stadnicka-Michalak

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae have been suggested as vertebrate model to complement or even replace mammals for rapidly assessing behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs. Yet, divergent responses have been reported in mammals and fish despite the conserv ...

Oxford Univ Press2016

Evolutionary dynamics of coding and non-coding transcriptomes

Anamaria Necsulea

Gene expression changes may underlie much of phenotypic evolution. The development of high-throughput RNA sequencing protocols has opened the door to unprecedented large-scale and cross-species transcriptome comparisons by allowing accurate and sensitive a ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Polycomb Recruitment and Targeting in Mammals

Patrick Schorderet

Polycomb- (PcG) and trithorax (trxG) group proteins are essential components in the regulation of multiple developmental regulators. In particular, during early stages, they act as chromatin modifiers in such a way as to set and maintain the transcriptiona ...

EPFL2013

A conserved transcriptional enhancer that specifies Tyrp1 expression to melanocytes

Friedrich Beermann

Pigment cells of mammals originate from two different lineages: melanocytes arise from the neural crest, whereas cells of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) originate from the optic cup of the developing forebrain. Previous studies have suggested that pi ...

2006

NEOBASE: databasing the neocortical microcircuit

Henry Markram

Mammals adapt to a rapidly changing world because of the sophisticated perceptual and cognitive function enabled by the neocortex. The neocortex, which has expanded to constitute nearly 80% of the human brain seems to have arisen from repeated duplication ...

2005

Interneurons of the neocortical inhibitory system

Henry Markram, Gilad Silberberg, Yi Wang

Mammals adapt to a rapidly changing world because of the sophisticated cognitive functions that are supported by the neocortex. The neocortex, which forms almost 80% of the human brain, seems to have arisen from repeated duplication of a stereotypical micr ...

2004

T-box genes and the evolution of paired vertebrate appendages.

Andrew Charles Oates

Modern jawed vertebrates possess two sets of paired appendages. The specific molecular genetic events associated with their origin remain enigmatic. Recently we suggested that certain T-box genes, transcription factors playing essential roles in vertebrate ...

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