C. briggsae developmental timecourse
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ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis briggsae
SUBMITTER: Craig Hunter
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-15233 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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Comparison of diverse developmental transcriptomes reveals that coexpression of gene neighbors is not evolutionarily conserved.
Yanai Itai I Hunter Craig P CP
Genome research 20090910 12
Genomic analyses have shown that adjacent genes are often coexpressed. However, it remains unclear whether the observed coexpression is a result of functional organization or a consequence of adjacent active chromatin or transcriptional read-through, which may be free of selective biases. Here, we compare temporal expression profiles of one-to-one orthologs in conserved or divergent genomic positions in two genetically distant nematode species-Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae-that share a ...[more]
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