Molecular and functional basis of phenotypic convergence in white lizards at White Sands

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2113-2117

  Rosenblum, Erica Bree ^a   Römpler, Holger ^b,c   Schöneberg, Torsten ^b   Hoekstra, Hopi E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Genetics; Lizard; Mc1r; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPIDOSCELIS INORNATA; CELL ASSAY; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HABITAT; LIZARD; MC1R GENE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIZARDS; MELANINS; MUTATION; NEW MEXICO; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SILICON DIOXIDE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

SQUAMATA;

EID: 76649130556     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911042107     Document Type: Article

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