2012
Origin of the Endometrial Gene Regulatory Network of Placental Mammals.
Wagner G, Lynch V, Nnamani M. Origin of the Endometrial Gene Regulatory Network of Placental Mammals. Biology Of Reproduction 2012, 87: 33-33. DOI: 10.1093/biolreprod/87.s1.33.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGene regulatory networksTransposable elementsPlacental mammalsRegulatory networksComparative transcriptome sequencingSpecific transposable elementsRegulatory network changesCis-regulatory elementsGene expression patternsDecidual cell typesChromatin marksGene regulationStem lineageTranscriptome sequencingChromatin immunoprecipitationRegulatory elementsInvasive placentationExpression patternsDerived characterAryl hydrocarbon receptorGenesCell typesMammalsRegulatory activityStromal cells
2008
Adaptive changes in the transcription factor HoxA-11 are essential for the evolution of pregnancy in mammals
Lynch VJ, Tanzer A, Wang Y, Leung FC, Gellersen B, Emera D, Wagner GP. Adaptive changes in the transcription factor HoxA-11 are essential for the evolution of pregnancy in mammals. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2008, 105: 14928-14933. PMID: 18809929, PMCID: PMC2567470, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802355105.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCis-regulatory elementsHoxa-11Evolutionary changePlacental mammalsEutherian mammalsTranscription factorsCis-regulatory evolutionDirect regulatory targetsGene expression domainsStrong positive selectionNovel developmental pathwayPRL expressionTherian ancestorGene regulationExpression domainsPositive selectionRegulatory targetsNovel functionDevelopmental pathwaysMammalsSpatial expressionProlactin expressionGenesExpressionAdaptive changes
2007
The road to modularity
Wagner GP, Pavlicev M, Cheverud JM. The road to modularity. Nature Reviews Genetics 2007, 8: 921-931. PMID: 18007649, DOI: 10.1038/nrg2267.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProtein-protein interaction networkMolecular systems biologyPatterns of evolutionGene duplicationGene regulationEvolutionary biologyNeutral mutationsBiological organizationQuantitative traitsInteraction networksSystems biologyStructure of macromoleculesEnvironmental conditionsBiologyDuplicationTraitsMutationsRegulationSelectionModularityMacromolecules