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Regulatory Divergence among Beta-Keratin Genes during Bird Evolution.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2016
Bhattacharjee Maloyjo Joyraj, Yu Chun-Ping, Lin Jinn-Jy, Ng Chen Siang, Wang Tzi-Yuan, Lin Hsin-Hung, Li Wen-Hsiung
Abstract excerpt
Feathers, which are mainly composed of α- and β-keratins, are highly diversified, largely owing to duplication and diversification of β-keratin genes during bird evolution. However, little is known about the regulatory changes that contributed to the expressional diversification of β-keratin genes. To address this issue, we studied transcriptomes from five different parts of chicken contour and flight feathers....
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