Genomic insights into adaptation to high-altitude environments

Heredity

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 354-361

  Cheviron, Z A ^a   Brumfield, R T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological genomics; functional genomics; hemoglobin; hypoxia; next generation sequencing; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; ENDOTHERMY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HEMOGLOBIN; HERITABILITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; COLD; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OXYGEN; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858860334     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.85     Document Type: Review

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