Ground tit genome reveals avian adaptation to living at high altitudes in the Tibetan plateau

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Qu, Yanhua ^a   Zhao, Hongwei ^b   Han, Naijian ^a   Zhou, Guangyu ^b   Song, Gang ^a   Gao, Bin ^a   Tian, Shilin ^b   Zhang, Jinbo ^b   Zhang, Ruiying ^a,e   Meng, Xuehong ^b   Zhang, Yuan ^b   Zhang, Yong ^a   Zhu, Xiaojia ^a,e   Wang, Wenjuan ^a,e   Lambert, David ^c   Ericson, Per G P ^d   Subramanian, Sankar ^c   Yeung, Carol ^b   Zhu, Hongmei ^b   Jiang, Zhi ^b   Li, Ruiqiang ^b,f   Lei, Fumin ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuqing Development Zone   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA KERATIN;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIVERGENCE; GENOME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; OLFACTORY CUE; PASSERINE; TAXONOMY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BONE DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEATHER; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PARUS HUMILIS; SMELLING; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; AVIAN PROTEINS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIBET;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84880109446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3071     Document Type: Article

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