Seasonal variation of myostatin gene expression in pectoralis muscle of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) is consistent with a role in regulating thermogenic capacity and cold tolerance

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-128

  Swanson, David L ^a   Sabirzhanov, Boris ^b   VandeZande, Amanda ^b   Clark, Timothy G ^b  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSTATIN; PRIMER DNA; TOLLOID METALLOPROTEINASE;

ACCLIMATION; COLD TOLERANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITOR; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; OVERWINTERING; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SPARROW; THERMOGENESIS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; MYOSTATIN; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SOUTH DAKOTA; SPARROWS; THERMOGENESIS; TOLLOID-LIKE METALLOPROTEINASES;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 62549153644     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591099     Document Type: Article

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