Regulatory changes contribute to the adaptive enhancement of thermogenic capacity in high-altitude deer mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8635-8640

  Cheviron, Zachary A ^a,c   Bachman, Gwendolyn C ^a   Connaty, Alex D ^b   McClelland, Grant B ^b   Storz, Jay F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; RNA seq; Thermoregulation; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; FATTY ACID; MUSCLE ENZYME;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRAIT; HYPOXIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PEROMYSCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOGENESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEROMYSCUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

EID: 84861909700     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120523109     Document Type: Article

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