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| Michael Z LudwigSummaryAffiliation: University of Chicago Country: USA Publications
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Evolution and inheritance of early embryonic patterning in Drosophila simulans and D. sechelliaSusan E Lott
Committee on Genetics and Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 1101 E 57th St, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Evolution 65:1388-99. 2011....
Functional analysis of eve stripe 2 enhancer evolution in Drosophila: rules governing conservation and changeM Z Ludwig
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Development 125:949-58. 1998..This view allows for a slow but continual turnover of functionally important changes in the stripe 2 enhancer...
Evidence for stabilizing selection in a eukaryotic enhancer elementM Z Ludwig
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Nature 403:564-7. 2000..Sequence differences between species have functional consequences, therefore, but they are masked by other co-evolved differences. On the basis of these results, we present a model for the evolution of eukaryotic regulatory sequences...
Functional evolution of noncoding DNAMichael Z Ludwig
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Curr Opin Genet Dev 12:634-9. 2002..Several experimentally characterized regulatory elements have failed to show sequence similarity even between closely related species...
Functional evolution of a cis-regulatory moduleMichael Z Ludwig
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
PLoS Biol 3:e93. 2005..Our findings have implications for understanding enhancer structure-function, mechanisms of speciation and computational identification of regulatory modules...
Consequences of eukaryotic enhancer architecture for gene expression dynamics, development, and fitnessMichael Z Ludwig
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS Genet 7:e1002364. 2011..These results imply that seemingly redundant regulatory sequences beyond the minimal enhancer are necessary for robust gene expression and that "robustness" itself must be an evolved characteristic of the wild-type enhancer...
Canalization of segmentation and its evolution in DrosophilaSusan E Lott
Committee on Genetics, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 1101 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:10926-31. 2007..Thus, the developmental mechanism that assures robust scaling within a species does not prevent rapid evolution between species...
Artificial selection on egg size perturbs early pattern formation in Drosophila melanogasterCECELIA M MILES
The University of Chicago, Department of Ecology and Evolution, 1101 E 57 St, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Evolution 65:33-42. 2011..Despite its macroevolutionary conservation, both eve stripe patterning and blastoderm cell number vary genetically both within and between closely related species...
Nanos plays a conserved role in axial patterning outside of the DipteraSabbi Lall
HHMI/Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue MC1028, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Curr Biol 13:224-9. 2003..This is consistent with the notion that an anterior gradient system is not necessary in all insects and that the posterior pole "probably conveys longitudinal polarity on the ensuing germ anlage"...
