The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage

More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

(2012) N. G. Crawford et al.   Biology Letters

Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria)

(2012) Ylenia Chiari et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Transcriptional evolution underlying vertebrate sexual development

(2012) Nicole Valenzuela et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Dmrt genes in the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism

(2012) Artyom Kopp   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Knockout of the murine cysteine dioxygenase gene results in severe impairment in ability to synthesize taurine and an increased catabolism of cysteine to hydrogen sulfide

(2011) Iori Ueki et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Identification of novel transcripts in annotated genomes using RNA-Seq

(2011) A. Roberts et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade

(2011) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

DO VARIATIONS IN SUBSTITUTION RATES AND MALE MUTATION BIAS CORRELATE WITH LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS? A STUDY OF 32 MAMMALIAN GENOMES

(2011) Melissa A. Wilson Sayres et al.   EVOLUTION

The Anolis Lizard Genome: An Amniote Genome without Isochores

(2011) Matthew K. Fujita et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Rampant Horizontal Transfer of SPIN Transposons in Squamate Reptiles

(2011) C. Gilbert et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

(2011) Jessica Alföldi et al.   NATURE

Genome sequencing reveals insights into physiology and longevity of the naked mole rat

(2011) Eun Bae Kim et al.   NATURE

The UCSC Genome Browser database: extensions and updates 2011

(2011) T. R. Dreszer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Are all sex chromosomes created equal?

(2011) Doris Bachtrog et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Genome Evolution in Reptilia, the Sister Group of Mammals

(2010) Daniel E. Janes et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

The role of MNK proteins and eIF4E phosphorylation in breast cancer cell proliferation and survival

(2010) Matthew J. Wheater et al.   CANCER BIOLOGY & THERAPY

Avian toll-like receptors

(2010) Robert Brownlie et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Complexity of expressed CHIR genes

(2010) Birgit C. Viertlboeck et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Understanding the vertebrate immune system: insights from the reptilian perspective

(2010) L. M. Zimmerman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The genome of a songbird

(2010) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The terminal loop region controls microRNA processing by Drosha and Dicer

(2010) X. Zhang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Pseudogenization of the tooth gene enamelysin (MMP20) in the common ancestor of extant baleen whales

(2010) R. W. Meredith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multivariate Expression Analysis of the Gene Network Underlying Sexual Development in Turtle Embryos with Temperature-Dependent and Genotypic Sex Determination

(2010) N. Valenzuela   Sexual Development

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The emerging roles of microRNAs in the molecular responses of metabolic rate depression

(2010) K. K. Biggar et al.   Journal of Molecular Cell Biology

An investigation into the population abundance distribution of mRNAs, proteins, and metabolites in biological systems

(2009) Chuan Lu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq

(2009) Cole Trapnell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MicroRNA-29b induces global DNA hypomethylation and tumor suppressor gene reexpression in acute myeloid leukemia by targeting directly DNMT3A and 3B and indirectly DNMT1

(2009) R. Garzon et al.   BLOOD

Beta-keratins of turtle shell are glycine-proline-tyrosine rich proteins similar to those of crocodilians and birds

(2009) Luisa Dalla Valle et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Loss of teeth and enamel in tetrapods: fossil record, genetic data and morphological adaptations

(2009) Tiphaine Davit-Béal et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The mammalian anti-proliferative BTG/Tob protein family

(2009) G. Sebastiaan Winkler   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Analysis of the Immunoglobulin Light Chain Genes in Zebra Finch: Evolutionary Implications

(2009) S. Das et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

BioMart Central Portal—unified access to biological data

(2009) Syed Haider et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Transcriptome analysis by strand-specific sequencing of complementary DNA

(2009) Dmitri Parkhomchuk et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The SR protein family of splicing factors: master regulators of gene expression

(2008) Jennifer C. Long et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Transcriptome analysis for Caenorhabditis elegans based on novel expressed sequence tags

(2008) Heesun Shin et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Hen's teeth with enamel cap: from dream to impossibility

(2008) Jean-Yves Sire et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular packing in the feather keratin filament

(2008) R.D. Bruce Fraser et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE

Transposable elements and the evolution of regulatory networks

(2008) Cédric Feschotte   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Patterns of Positive Selection in Six Mammalian Genomes

(2008) Carolin Kosiol et al.   PLoS Genetics