Natural selection and adaptive evolution of leptin in the Ochotona family driven by the cold environmental stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Jie ^a,b   Wang, Zhen Long ^a,c   Zhao, Xin Quan ^a   Wang, De Peng ^a,b   Qi, De Lin ^a,b   Xu, Bao Hong ^d   Ren, Yong Hong ^d   Tian, Hui Fang ^d  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Shijiazhung Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LEPTIN; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAGOMORPH; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COLD; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; OCHOTONA; OCHOTONIDAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LAGOMORPHA; LEPTIN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 44849112827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001472     Document Type: Article

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