Antifreeze protein gene amplification facilitated niche exploitation and speciation in wolffish

FEBS Journal

Volumn 279, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2215-2230

  Desjardins, Mariève ^a,b   Graham, Laurie A ^b   Davies, Peter L ^b   Fletcher, Garth L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

freeze resistance; gene amplification; glaciation; multigene family; speciation

Indexed keywords

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN;

ANARCHICHAS LUPUS; ANARCHICHAS MINOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE POOL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIATION; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FISHES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANARHICHAS; ANARHICHAS LUPUS; ANARHICHAS MINOR; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84861899831     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08605.x     Document Type: Article

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