Genomic signatures of diet-related shifts during human origins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1708, 2011, Pages 961-969

  Babbitt, Courtney C ^a   Warner, Lisa R ^a   Fedrigo, Olivier ^a   Wall, Christine E ^a   Wray, Gregory A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation owing to diet; Human evolution; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOLOGY; DIET; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; DIET; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIET; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PRIMATES;

EID: 79958259071     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2433     Document Type: Review

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