The voltage-gated potassium channel subfamily KQT member 4 (KCNQ4) displays parallel evolution in echolocating bats

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1441-1450

  Liu, Yang ^a   Han, Naijian ^b   Franchini, Lucía F ^c   Xu, Huihui ^a   Pisciottano, Francisco ^c   Elgoyhen, Ana Belén ^c   Rajan, Koilmani Emmanuvel ^d   Zhang, Shuyi ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^d BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; CHRNA10; Hearing; KCNQ4; Natural selection; Parallel evolution

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ4;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BAT; CHRNA10 GENE; ECHOLOCATION; EXON; GENE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR CELL; HEARING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; KCNQ POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84862865765     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr310     Document Type: Article

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