Functional genomics of adaptation to hypoxic cold-stress in high-altitude deer mice: Transcriptomic plasticity and thermogenic performance

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-62

  Cheviron, Zachary A ^a   Connaty, Alex D ^b   Mcclelland, Grant B ^b   Storz, Jay F ^c  

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

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological genomics; High altitude adaptation; Hypoxia; Phenotypic flexibility; RNA seq; Thermogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLD TOLERANCE; FITNESS; GARDEN; GENOMICS; HYPOXIA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RODENT; TIMESCALE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; COLD SHOCK RESPONSE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH-ALTITUDE ADAPTATION; HYPOXIA; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; PEROMYSCUS; PHENOTYPIC FLEXIBILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA-SEQ; THERMOGENESIS;

ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS; HIGH-ALTITUDE ADAPTATION; HYPOXIA; PHENOTYPIC FLEXIBILITY; RNA-SEQ; THERMOGENESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; COLD-SHOCK RESPONSE; GENOMICS; OXYGEN; PEROMYSCUS; THERMOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84890869597     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12257     Document Type: Article

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