Searching for signatures of cold adaptations in modern and archaic humans: Hints from the brown adipose tissue genes

Heredity

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 259-267

  Sazzini, M ^a   Schiavo, G ^a   De Fanti, S ^a   Martelli, P L ^a   Casadio, R ^a   Luiselli, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CLIMATE; COLD; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; THERMOGENESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ALLELES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FOSSILS; GENOME; HUMANS; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 84906100208     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2014.24     Document Type: Article

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