Genome sequencing reveals insights into physiology and longevity of the naked mole rat

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7372, 2011, Pages 223-227

  Kim, Eun Bae ^a   Fang, Xiaodong ^b   Fushan, Alexey A ^a   Huang, Zhiyong ^b   Lobanov, Alexei V ^c   Han, Lijuan ^b   Marino, Stefano M ^c   Sun, Xiaoqing ^b   Turanov, Anton A ^c   Yang, Pengcheng ^b   Yim, Sun Hee ^c   Zhao, Xiang ^b   Kasaikina, Marina V ^c   Stoletzki, Nina ^c   Peng, Chunfang ^b   Polak, Paz ^c   Xiong, Zhiqiang ^b   Kiezun, Adam ^c   Zhu, Yabing ^b   Chen, Yuanxin ^b   Kryukov, Gregory V ^c,d   Zhang, Qiang ^b   Peshkin, Leonid ^e   Yang, Lan ^b   Bronson, Roderick T ^e   Buffenstein, Rochelle ^f   Wang, Bo ^b   Han, Changlei ^b   Li, Qiye ^b   Chen, Li ^b   Zhao, Wei ^b   Sunyaev, Shamil R ^c,d   Park, Thomas J ^g   Zhang, Guojie ^b   Wang, Jun ^b,h,i   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^a,c,d   more..

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^h Capital Region   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGING; BODY SIZE; CANCER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLONY; EUSOCIALITY; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY;

AGING; ALOPECIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; GENES; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLE RATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OXYGEN; TASTE; TRANSCRIPTOME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 80855165387     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10533     Document Type: Article

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