Adaptive Evolution of the Myo6 Gene in Old World Fruit Bats (Family: Pteropodidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Shen, Bin ^a   Han, Xiuqun ^a   Jones, Gareth ^b   Rossiter, Stephen J ^c   Zhang, Shuyi ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN VI;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTIBEUS LITURATUS; ARTICLE; BAT; COCHLEA; CYNOPTERUS SPHINX; ECHOLOCATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; EONYCTERIS SPELAEA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINE; HEARING ACUITY; HIPPOSIDEROS ARMIGER; HIPPOSIDEROS PRATTI; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LEPTONYCTERIS YERBABUENAE; MEGADERMA LYRA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORMOOPS MEGALOPHYLLA; MYOSIN VI GENE; MYOTIS RICKETTI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIPISTRELLUS ABRAMUS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PTERONOTUS PARNELLII; PTEROPODIDAE; RHINOLOPHUS FERRUMEQUINUM; RHINOLOPHUS PUSILLUS; ROUSETTUS LESCHENAULTII; TADARIDA PLICATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION, GENETIC;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PTEROPODIDAE;

EID: 84876423191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062307     Document Type: Article

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