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List of works by Flavio S J de Souza

A transgenic marker for newly born granule cells in dentate gyrus.

scientific article published in March 2004

Convergent evolution of two mammalian neuronal enhancers by sequential exaptation of unrelated retroposons

scientific article (publication date: 13 September 2011)

Enhancer turnover and conserved regulatory function in vertebrate evolution.

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Essential function of the transcription factor Rax in the early patterning of the mammalian hypothalamus.

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Evolution of the Rax family of developmental transcription factors in vertebrates

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Evolution of transcriptional enhancers and animal diversity.

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Exaptation of transposable elements into novel cis-regulatory elements: is the evidence always strong?

scientific article (publication date: June 2013)

Islet 1 specifies the identity of hypothalamic melanocortin neurons and is critical for normal food intake and adiposity in adulthood

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Obesity-programmed mice are rescued by early genetic intervention

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Partially redundant enhancers cooperatively maintain Mammalian pomc expression above a critical functional threshold

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Selective pressure against horizontally acquired prokaryotic genes as a driving force of plastid evolution

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Sequencing of small RNAs of the fern Pleopeltis minima (Polypodiaceae) offers insight into the evolution of the microrna repertoire in land plants

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Subfunctionalization of expression and peptide domains following the ancient duplication of the proopiomelanocortin gene in teleost fishes.

scientific article published on 10 August 2005

The Homeodomain Transcription Factor NKX2.1 Is Essential for the Early Specification of Melanocortin Neuron Identity and Activates Pomc Expression in the Developing Hypothalamus.

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

The estrogen receptor α colocalizes with proopiomelanocortin in hypothalamic neurons and binds to a conserved motif present in the neuron-specific enhancer nPE2

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Transcriptional regulation of pituitary POMC is conserved at the vertebrate extremes despite great promoter sequence divergence.

scientific article published on 14 August 2007

cDNA cloning, biochemical and phylogenetic characterization of beta- and beta'-subunits of Candida albicans protein kinase CK2.

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