Dense and pleiotropic regulatory information in a developmental enhancer.

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Nature. 2020 Nov 01;587(7833):235-39. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2816-5

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Dense and pleiotropic regulatory information in a developmental enhancer. Stern Lab

Fuqua T, Jordan J, van Breugel ME, Halavatyi A, Tischer C, Polidoro P, Abe N, Tsai A, Mann RS, Stern DL, Crocker J

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Changes in gene regulation underlie much of phenotypic evolution. However, our understanding of the potential for regulatory evolution is biased, because most evidence comes from either natural variation or limited experimental perturbations. Using an automated robotics pipeline, we surveyed an unbiased mutation library for a developmental enhancer in Drosophila melanogaster. We found that almost all mutations altered gene expression and that parameters of gene expression-levels, location, and state-were convolved. The widespread pleiotropic effects of most mutations may constrain the evolvability of developmental enhancers. Consistent with these observations, comparisons of diverse Drosophila larvae revealed apparent biases in the phenotypes influenced by the enhancer. Developmental enhancers may encode a higher density of regulatory information than has been appreciated previously, imposing constraints on regulatory evolution.

PMID: 33057197 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Dense and pleiotropic regulatory information in a developmental enhancer.

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PMID: 33057197 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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