Co-orthology of Pax4 and Pax6 to the fly eyeless gene: molecular phylogenetic, comparative genomic, and embryological analyses

Revisiting a classic example of transcription factor functional equivalence: are Eyeless and Pax6 functionally equivalent or divergent?

(2010) Vincent J. Lynch et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Conversion of adult pancreatic α-cells to β-cells after extreme β-cell loss

(2010) Fabrizio Thorel et al.   NATURE

On the diabetic menu: Zebrafish as a model for pancreas development and function

(2009) Mary D. Kinkel et al.   BIOESSAYS

Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects

(2009) Brian M Wiegmann et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models

(2009) Georgia Tsagkogeorga et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Alpha Cells Beget Beta Cells

(2009) Zhengyu Liu et al.   CELL

The Ectopic Expression of Pax4 in the Mouse Pancreas Converts Progenitor Cells into α and Subsequently β Cells

(2009) Patrick Collombat et al.   CELL

ThePAX258gene subfamily: A comparative perspective

(2009) Debbie K. Goode et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The evolution and maintenance of Hox gene clusters in vertebrates and the teleost-specific genome duplication

(2009) Shigehiro Kuraku et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cell therapy for diabetes: Stem cells, progenitors or beta-cell replication?

(2009) L. Jorge Gonez et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications

(2009) Yves Van de Peer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Insights into Cyclostome Phylogenomics: Pre-2R or Post-2R

(2009) Shigehiro Kuraku   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Evolution of developmental roles of Pax2/5/8 paralogs after independent duplication in urochordate and vertebrate lineages

(2008) Susan Bassham et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Expression of zebrafish pax6b in pancreas is regulated by two enhancers containing highly conserved cis-elements bound by PDX1, PBX and PREP factors

(2008) François M Delporte et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Systematic human/zebrafish comparative identification of cis-regulatory activity around vertebrate developmental transcription factor genes

(2008) Pavla Navratilova et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Developmental and Diurnal Dynamics ofPax4Expression in the Mammalian Pineal Gland: Nocturnal Down-Regulation Is Mediated by Adrenergic-Cyclic Adenosine 3′,5′-Monophosphate Signaling

(2008) Martin F. Rath et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Function ofPax1 andPax9 in the sclerotome of medaka fish

(2008) Takeshi Mise et al.   GENESIS

Developmental and daily expression of thePax4andPax6homeobox genes in the rat retina: localization of Pax4 in photoreceptor cells

(2008) Martin F. Rath et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Timing of Genome Duplications Relative to the Origin of the Vertebrates: Did Cyclostomes Diverge before or after?

(2008) S. Kuraku et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

Ensembl 2009

(2008) T. J. P. Hubbard et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Subfunctionalization of Duplicated Zebrafish pax6 Genes by cis-Regulatory Divergence

(2008) Dirk A. Kleinjan et al.   PLoS Genetics