The effects of mitochondrial genotype on hypoxic survival and gene expression in a hybrid population of the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 4503-4520

  Flight, Patrick A ^a   Nacci, Diane ^b   Champlin, Denise ^b   Whitehead, Andrew ^c   Rand, David M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological genomics; microarray; mito nuclear interactions; mtDNA phylogeography; oxygen availability

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FUNDULIDAE; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; CYPRINODONTOIDEI; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; TELEOSTEI; VASCONCELLEA CANDICANS;

EID: 80054829672     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05290.x     Document Type: Article

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