Nature Genetics cover
Chromatin architecture is independent of gene expression
Nature Genetics cover
2021
Nature Genetics

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This artwork was created as a cover image for Nature Genetics for the Vaquerizas lab, for the paper 'Independence of chromatin conformation and gene regulation during Drosophila dorsoventral patterning' (Ing-Simmons et al, 2021). We wanted to create something that was distinctive but referenced enough field-specific imagery for the subject matter to obvious at a glance. We settled on a cross-section of at gastrulating drosophila embryo.


You can read the paper at www.nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00799-x

Chromatin architecture is independent of gene expression

Cells in different parts of the embryo express different genes (colored highlights) and will form different tissues. However, chromosome conformation capture and imaging approaches show that the three-dimensional organization of the genome across these different tissues is the same.