The yak genome and adaptation to life at high altitude

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 946-949

  Qiu, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Guojie ^b   Ma, Tao ^a   Qian, Wubin ^b   Ye, Zhiqiang ^c,d   Cao, Changchang ^b   Hu, Quanjun ^a   Kim, Jaebum ^e,f   Larkin, Denis M ^g   Auvil, Loretta ^e   Capitanu, Boris ^e   Ma, Jian ^e,h   Lewin, Harris A ⁱ   Qian, Xiaoju ^b   Lang, Yongshan ^b   Zhou, Ran ^a   Wang, Lizhong ^a   Wang, Kun ^a   Xia, Jinquan ^b   Liao, Shengguang ^b   Pan, Shengkai ^b   Lu, Xu ^a   Hou, Haolong ^b   Wang, Yan ^b   Zang, Xuetao ^b   Yin, Ye ^b   Ma, Hui ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Wang, Zhaofeng ^a   Zhang, Yingmei ^a   Zhang, Dawei ^a   Yonezawa, Takahiro ^j   Hasegawa, Masami ^j   Zhong, Yang ^j   Liu, Wenbin ^b   Zhang, Yan ^b   Huang, Zhiyong ^b   Zhang, Shengxiang ^a   Long, Ruijun ^a   Yang, Huanming ^b   Lenstra, Johannes A ^k   Cooper, David N ^l   Wu, Yi ^a   Wang, Jun ^b,m   Shi, Peng ^c   Wang, Jian ^b   Liu, Jianquan ^a,n   Wang, Junyis ^b   more..

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

^f Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^g ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^l CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁿ SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LIFE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; YAK;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS GRUNNIENS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 84864398778     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2343     Document Type: Article

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