Baiji genomes reveal low genetic variability and new insights into secondary aquatic adaptations

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Xuming ^a,b   Sun, Fengming ^c   Xu, Shixia ^a   Fan, Guangyi ^c   Zhu, Kangli ^a   Liu, Xin ^c   Chen, Yuan ^a   Shi, Chengcheng ^c   Yang, Yunxia ^a   Huang, Zhiyong ^c   Chen, Jing ^c   Hou, Haolong ^c   Guo, Xuejiang ^d   Chen, Wenbin ^c   Chen, Yuefeng ^a   Wang, Xiaohong ^a   Lv, Tian ^c   Yang, Dan ^a   Zhou, Jiajian ^c   Huang, Bangqing ^c   Wang, Zhengfei ^a   Zhao, Wei ^c   Tian, Ran ^a   Xiong, Zhiqiang ^c   Xu, Junxiao ^a   Liang, Xinming ^c   Chen, Bingyao ^a   Wang, Jun ^c,e,f   Liu, Weiqing ^c   Wang, Junyi ^c   Pan, Shengkai ^c   Fang, Xiaodong ^c   Li, Ming ^b   Wei, Fuwen ^c   Xu, Xun ^c   Zhou, Kaiya ^a   Yang, Guang ^a   more..

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^d NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARR 3 PROTEIN; DAZ INTERACTING PROTEIN 1; GENOMIC DNA; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OPSIN; OPSIN 1SW; OPSIN 3; OSTEONECTIN; PDZ D7 PROTEIN; PDZ PROTEIN; PRESTIN; SYNAPSIN I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSMEMBRANE CHANNEL LIKE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS; WNT8A PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DOLPHIN; EUSTACY; EXTINCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; LAST DEGLACIATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEGLACIATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOLPHIN; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HEARING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LIPOTES VEXILLIFER; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOGENE; RIVER; SEA LEVEL; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPOSON; VOCALIZATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; LIPOTES VEXILLIFER; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DOLPHINS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84889244482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3708     Document Type: Article

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