Evidence for positive selection on the leptin gene in cetacea and pinnipedia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Yu, Li ^a   Jin, Wei ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Wang, Ding ^b   Zheng, Jin song ^b   Yang, Guang ^c   Xu, Shi xia ^c   Cho, Soochin ^d   Zhang, Ya ping ^a,e  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CETACEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; LEPTIN GENE; LEPTIN RECEPTOR GENE; LIFE HISTORY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POSITIVE SELECTION; RECEPTOR GENE; SEAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; ODONTOCETI; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CETACEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LEPTIN; PINNIPEDIA; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80055041245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026579     Document Type: Article

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