Repeated elevational transitions in hemoglobin function during the evolution of Andean hummingbirds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20669-20674

  Projecto Garcia, Joana ^a   Natarajan, Chandrasekhar ^a   Moriyama, Hideaki ^a   Weber, Roy E ^b   Fago, Angela ^b   Cheviron, Zachary A ^a,c   Dudley, Robert ^d   McGuire, Jimmy A ^d   Witt, Christopher C ^e   Storz, Jay F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; High altitude adaptation; Hypoxia; Parallel evolution; Protein evolution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIRD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMMINGBIRD; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PHENOTYPE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 84890815387     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315456110     Document Type: Article

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