ZFIN ID: ZDB-LAB-040810-4
Elgar Lab - Fugu Comparative Genomics Group
PI/Director: Elgar, Greg
Contact Person: Elgar, Greg
Email: gelgar@rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk
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Address: Division of Systems Biology MRC National Institute for Medical Research The Ridgeway Mill Hill London NW7 1AA UK
Country: United Kingdom
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Line Designation: nim


GENOMIC FEATURES ORIGINATING FROM THIS LAB
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STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS


LAB MEMBERS
Smith, Sarah Post-Doc Woolfe, Adam Graduate Student Snell, Philip Research Staff
Doglio, Laura Grice, Joseph Kenyon, Emma
Pauls, Stefan


ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS OF LAB MEMBERS x
Pauls, S., Goode, D.K., Petrone, L., Oliveri, P., Elgar, G. (2015) Evolution of lineage-specific functions in ancient cis-regulatory modules. Open Biology. 5(11)
Anwar, S., Minhas, R., Ali, S., Lambert, N., Kawakami, Y., Elgar, G., Azam, S.S., Abbasi, A.A. (2015) Identification and functional characterization of novel transcriptional enhancers involved in regulating human GLI3 expression during early development. Development, Growth & Differentiation. 57(8):570-80
Minhas, R., Pauls, S., Ali, S., Doglio, L., Khan, M.R., Elgar, G., Abbasi, A.A. (2015) Cis-regulatory control of human GLI2 expression in the developing neural tube and limb bud. Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 244(5):681-92
Kenyon, E.J., Campos, I., Bull, J.C., Williams, P.H., Stemple, D.L., Clark, M.D. (2014) Zebrafish Rab5 Proteins and a role for Rab5ab in nodal signalling. Developmental Biology. 397(2):212-24
Chen, W.C., Pauls, S., Bacha, J., Elgar, G., Loose, M., Shimeld, S.M. (2014) Dissection of a Ciona regulatory element reveals complexity of cross-species enhancer activity. Developmental Biology. 390:261-72
Doglio, L., Goode, D.K., Pelleri, M.C., Pauls, S., Frabetti, F., Shimeld, S.M., Vavouri, T., and Elgar, G. (2013) Parallel evolution of chordate cis-regulatory code for development. PLoS Genetics. 9(11):e1003904
Howe, K., Clark, M.D., Torroja, C.F., Torrance, J., Berthelot, C., Muffato, M., Collins, J.E., Humphray, S., McLaren, K., Matthews, L., McLaren, S., Sealy, I., Caccamo, M., Churcher, C., Scott, C., Barrett, J.C., Koch, R., Rauch, G.J., White, S., Chow, W., Kilian, B., Quintais, L.T., Guerra-Assunção, J.A., Zhou, Y., Gu, Y., Yen, J., Vogel, J.H., Eyre, T., Redmond, S., Banerjee, R., Chi, J., Fu, B., Langley, E., Maguire, S.F., Laird, G.K., Lloyd, D., Kenyon, E., Donaldson, S., Sehra, H., Almeida-King, J., Loveland, J., Trevanion, S., Jones, M., Quail, M., Willey, D., Hunt, A., Burton, J., Sims, S., McLay, K., Plumb, B., Davis, J., Clee, C., Oliver, K., Clark, R., Riddle, C., Eliott, D., Threadgold, G., Harden, G., Ware, D., Mortimer, B., Kerry, G., Heath, P., Phillimore, B., Tracey, A., Corby, N., Dunn, M., Johnson, C., Wood, J., Clark, S., Pelan, S., Griffiths, G., Smith, M., Glithero, R., Howden, P., Barker, N., Stevens, C., Harley, J., Holt, K., Panagiotidis, G., Lovell, J., Beasley, H., Henderson, C., Gordon, D., Auger, K., Wright, D., Collins, J., Raisen, C., Dyer, L., Leung, K., Robertson, L., Ambridge, K., Leongamornlert, D., McGuire, S., Gilderthorp, R., Griffiths, C., Manthravadi, D., Nichol, S., Barker, G., Whitehead, S., Kay, M., Brown, J., Murnane, C., Gray, E., Humphries, M., Sycamore, N., Barker, D., Saunders, D., Wallis, J., Babbage, A., Hammond, S., Mashreghi-Mohammadi, M., Barr, L., Martin, S., Wray, P., Ellington, A., Matthews, N., Ellwood, M., Woodmansey, R., Clark, G., Cooper, J., Tromans, A., Grafham, D., Skuce, C., Pandian, R., Andrews, R., Harrison, E., Kimberley, A., Garnett, J., Fosker, N., Hall, R., Garner, P., Kelly, D., Bird, C., Palmer, S., Gehring, I., Berger, A., Dooley, C.M., Ersan-Ürün, Z., Eser, C., Geiger, H., Geisler, M., Karotki, L., Kirn, A., Konantz, J., Konantz, M., Oberländer, M., Rudolph-Geiger, S., Teucke, M., Osoegawa, K., Zhu, B., Rapp, A., Widaa, S., Langford, C., Yang, F., Carter, N.P., Harrow, J., Ning, Z., Herrero, J., Searle, S.M., Enright, A., Geisler, R., Plasterk, R.H., Lee, C., Westerfield, M., de Jong, P.J., Zon, L.I., Postlethwait, J.H., Nüsslein-Volhard, C., Hubbard, T.J., Crollius, H.R., Rogers, J., and Stemple, D.L. (2013) The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome. Nature. 496:498-503
Wiles, T.J., Norton, J.P., Smith, S.N., Lewis, A.J., Mobley, H.L., Casjens, S.R., and Mulvey, M.A. (2013) A Phyletically Rare Gene Promotes the Niche-specific Fitness of an E. coli Pathogen during Bacteremia. PLoS pathogens. 9(2):e1003175
Pauls, S., Smith, S.F., and Elgar, G. (2012) Lens development depends on a pair of highly conserved Sox21 regulatory elements. Developmental Biology. 365(1):310-318
Parker, H.J., Piccinelli, P., Sauka-Spengler, T., Bronner, M., and Elgar, G. (2011) Ancient Pbx-Hox Signatures Define Hundreds of Vertebrate Developmental Enhancers. BMC Genomics. 12(1):637
Kenyon, E.J., McEwen, G.K., Callaway, H., and Elgar, G. (2011) Functional Analysis of Conserved Non-Coding Regions Around the Short Stature hox Gene (shox) in Whole Zebrafish Embryos. PLoS One. 6(6):e21498
Goode, D.K., Callaway, H.A., Cerda, G.A., Lewis, K.E., and Elgar, G. (2011) Minor change, major difference: divergent functions of highly conserved cis-regulatory elements subsequent to whole genome duplication events. Development (Cambridge, England). 138(5):879-884
Vaccari, E., Deflorian, G., Bernardi, E., Pauls, S., Tiso, N., Bortolussi, M., and Argenton, F. (2010) prep1.2 and aldh1a2 participate to a positive loop required for branchial arches development in zebrafish. Developmental Biology. 343(1-2):94-103
McEwen, G.K., Goode, D.K., Parker, H.J., Woolfe, A., Callaway, H., and Elgar, G. (2009) Early evolution of conserved regulatory sequences associated with development in vertebrates. PLoS Genetics. 5(12):e1000762
Elgar, G., and Vavouri, T. (2008) Tuning in to the signals: noncoding sequence conservation in vertebrate genomes. Trends in genetics : TIG. 24(7):344-352
Ikeda, D., Ono, Y., Snell, P., Edwards, Y.J., Elgar, G., and Watabe, S. (2007) Divergent evolution of the myosin heavy chain gene family in fish and tetrapods: evidence from comparative genomic analysis. Physiological Genomics. 32(1):1-15
Woolfe, A., Goode, D.K., Cooke, J., Callaway, H., Smith, S., Snell, P., McEwen, G.K., and Elgar, G. (2007) CONDOR: a database resource of developmentally associated conserved non-coding elements. BMC Developmental Biology. 7(1):100
Paparidis, Z., Abbasi, A.A., Malik, S., Goode, D.K., Callaway, H., Elgar, G., Degraaff, E., Lopez-Rios, J., Zeller, R., and Grzeschik, K.H. (2007) Ultraconserved non-coding sequence element controls a subset of spatiotemporal GLI3 expression. Development, Growth & Differentiation. 49(6):543-553
Pauls, S., Zecchin, E., Tiso, N., Bortolussi, M., and Argenton, F. (2007) Function and regulation of zebrafish nkx2.2a during development of pancreatic islet and ducts. Developmental Biology. 304(2):875-890
Abbasi, A.A., Paparidis, Z., Malik, S., Goode, D.K., Callaway, H., Elgar, G., and Grzeschik, K.H. (2007) Human GLI3 Intragenic Conserved Non-Coding Sequences Are Tissue-Specific Enhancers. PLoS One. 2(1):e366
Woolfe, A., and Elgar, G. (2007) Comparative genomics using Fugu reveals insights into regulatory subfunctionalization. Genome biology. 8(4):R53
Zecchin, E., Filippi, A., Biemar, F., Tiso, N., Pauls, S., Ellertsdottir, E., Gnugge, L., Bortolussi, M., Driever, W., and Argenton, F. (2007) Distinct delta and jagged genes control sequential segregation of pancreatic cell types from precursor pools in zebrafish. Developmental Biology. 301(1):192-204
Elgar, G. (2006) Different words, same meaning: understanding the languages of the genome. Trends in genetics : TIG. 22(12):639-641
McEwen, G.K., Woolfe, A., Goode, D., Vavouri, T., Callaway, H., and Elgar, G. (2006) Ancient duplicated conserved noncoding elements in vertebrates: a genomic and functional analysis. Genome research. 16(4):451-465
Goode, D.K., Snell, P., Smith, S.F., Cooke, J.E., and Elgar, G. (2005) Highly conserved regulatory elements around the SHH gene may contribute to the maintenance of conserved synteny across human chromosome 7q36.3. Genomics. 86(2):172-181
Kopeika, J., Zhang, T., Rawson, D.M., and Elgar, G. (2005) Effect of cryopreservation on mitochondrial DNA of zebrafish (Danio rerio) blastomere cells. Mutation research. 570(1):49-61
Woolfe, A., Goodson, M., Goode, D.K., Snell, P., McEwen, G.K., Vavouri, T., Smith, S.F., North, P., Callaway, H., Kelly, K., Walter, K., Abnizova, I., Gilks, W., Edwards, Y.J., Cooke, J.E., and Elgar, G. (2005) Highly conserved non-coding sequences are associated with vertebrate development. PLoS Biology. 3(1):e7
Geldmacher-Voss, B., Reugels, A.M., Pauls, S., and Campos-Ortega, J.A. (2003) A 90° rotation of the mitotic spindle changes the orientation of mitoses of zebrafish neuroepithelial cells. Development (Cambridge, England). 130(16):3767-3780
Miles, C.G., Rankin, L., Smith, S.I., Niksic, M., Elgar, G., and Hastie, N.D. (2003) Faithful expression of a tagged Fugu WT1 protein from a genomic transgene in zebrafish: efficient splicing of pufferfish genes in zebrafish but not mice. Nucleic acids research. 31(11):2795-2802
Tiso, N., Filippi, A., Pauls, S., Bortolussi, M., and Argenton, F. (2002) BMP signalling regulates anteroposterior endoderm patterning in zebrafish. Mechanisms of Development. 118(1-2):29-37
Sambrook, J.G., Russell, R., Umrania, Y., Edwards, Y.J., Campbell, R.D., Elgar, G., and Clark, M.S. (2002) Fugu orthologues of human major histocompatibility complex genes: a genome survey. Immunogenetics. 54(6):367-380
Smith, S.F., Snell, P., Gruetzner, F., Bench, A.J., Haaf, T., Metcalfe, J.A., Green, A.R., and Elgar, G. (2002) Analyses of the extent of shared synteny and conserved gene orders between the genome of Fugu rubripes and human 20q. Genome research. 12(5):776-784
Pauls, S., Geldmacher-Voss, B., and Campos-Ortega, J.A. (2001) A zebrafish histone variant H2A.F/Z and a transgenic H2A.F/Z:GFP fusion protein for in vivo studies of embryonic development. Development genes and evolution. 211(12):603-610
Clark, M.S., Shaw, L., Kelly, A., Snell, P., and Elgar, G. (2001) Characterization of the MHC class I region of the Japanese pufferfish (Fugu rubripes). Immunogenetics. 52(3-4):174-185