Bioenergetics in human evolution and disease: Implications for the origins of biological complexity and the missing genetic variation of common diseases

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1622, 2013, Pages

  Wallace, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Evolution; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOENERGETICS; BIOSPHERE; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ENERGY FLOW; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

BIOENERGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; REVIEW;

BIOENERGETICS; EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRIA;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84892715273     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0267     Document Type: Review

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