The molecular basis of high-altitude adaptation in deer mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 0448-0459

  Storz, Jay F ^a   Sabatino, Stephen J ^a   Hoffmann, Federico G ^a   Gering, Eben J ^a   Moriyama, Hideaki ^b   Ferrand, Nuno ^c,d   Monteiro, Bruno ^c,d   Nachman, Michael W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d Dept Quimica   (Portugal)

^e The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; GLOBIN;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED STATES;

PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COLORADO; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SPECIATION; GLOBINS; KANSAS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEROMYSCUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 34047218882     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030045     Document Type: Article

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