[HTML][HTML] The BRAIN initiative cell census consortium: lessons learned toward generating a comprehensive brain cell atlas

JR Ecker, DH Geschwind, AR Kriegstein, J Ngai… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
A comprehensive characterization of neuronal cell types, their distributions, and patterns of
connectivity is critical for understanding the properties of neural circuits and how they …

Giant lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates

A Meyer, S Schloissnig, P Franchini, K Du… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Lungfishes belong to lobe-fined fish (Sarcopterygii) that, in the Devonian
period,'conquered'the land and ultimately gave rise to all land vertebrates, including …

Toward identification of functional sequences and variants in noncoding DNA

R Monti, U Ohler - Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the noncoding part of the genome, which encodes gene regulation, is
necessary to identify genetic mechanisms of disease and translate findings from genome …

Control of mouse limb initiation and antero-posterior patterning by Meis transcription factors

I Delgado, G Giovinazzo, S Temiño, Y Gauthier… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Meis1 and Meis2 are homeodomain transcription factors that regulate organogenesis
through cooperation with Hox proteins. Elimination of Meis genes after limb induction has …

Phenotype loss is associated with widespread divergence of the gene regulatory landscape in evolution

JG Roscito, K Sameith, G Parra, BE Langer… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Detecting the genomic changes underlying phenotypic changes between species is a main
goal of evolutionary biology and genomics. Evolutionary theory predicts that changes in cis …

Convergent and lineage-specific genomic differences in limb regulatory elements in limbless reptile lineages

JG Roscito, K Sameith, BM Kirilenko, N Hecker… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Loss of limbs evolved many times in squamate reptiles. Here we investigated the genomic
basis of convergent limb loss in reptiles. We sequenced the genomes of a closely related …

Etv2 regulates enhancer chromatin status to initiate Shh expression in the limb bud

N Koyano-Nakagawa, W Gong, S Das… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sonic hedgehog (Shh) is essential for limb development, and the mechanisms that govern
the propagation and maintenance of its expression has been well studied; however, the …

Differential analysis of chromatin accessibility and histone modifications for predicting mouse developmental enhancers

S Fu, Q Wang, JE Moore, MJ Purcaro… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Enhancers are distal cis-regulatory elements that modulate gene expression. They are
depleted of nucleosomes and enriched in specific histone modifications; thus, calling DNase …

A spatio-temporally constrained gene regulatory network directed by PBX1/2 acquires limb patterning specificity via HAND2

M Losa, I Barozzi, M Osterwalder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A lingering question in developmental biology has centered on how transcription factors with
widespread distribution in vertebrate embryos can perform tissue-specific functions. Here …

Similarities and differences in the regulation of HoxD genes during chick and mouse limb development

N Yakushiji-Kaminatsui, L Lopez-Delisle, CC Bolt… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
In all tetrapods examined thus far, the development and patterning of limbs require the
activation of gene members of the HoxD cluster. In mammals, they are regulated by a …