Whole-genome sequencing of giant pandas provides insights into demographic history and local adaptation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-71

  Zhao, Shancen ^a,b   Zheng, Pingping ^a,c   Dong, Shanshan ^b   Zhan, Xiangjiang ^a   Wu, Qi ^a   Guo, Xiaosen ^b   Hu, Yibo ^a   He, Weiming ^b   Zhang, Shanning ^d   Fan, Wei ^b   Zhu, Lifeng ^a   Li, Dong ^b   Zhang, Xuemei ^b   Chen, Quan ^b   Zhang, Hemin ^e   Zhang, Zhihe ^f   Jin, Xuelin ^g   Zhang, Jinguo ^h   Yang, Huanming ^b   Wang, Jian ^b   Wang, Jun ^b,i   Wei, Fuwen ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Wildlife Conservation Society China Program   (China)

^e China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda   (China)

^f CHENGDU RESEARCH BASE OF GIANT PANDA BREEDING   (China)

^g Shaanxi Wild Animal Rescue and Research Center   (China)

^h Beijing Zoo   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AILUROPODA; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; URSIDAE;

AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 84871986062     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2494     Document Type: Article

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