Genetics, development and evolution of adaptive pigmentation in vertebrates

Heredity

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-234

  Hoekstra, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agouti; Candidate gene; Color; Gene regulation; Mc1r; Peromyscus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SHORT SURVEY; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; PIGMENTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS); VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747873404     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800861     Document Type: Short Survey

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