Compact genome of the Antarctic midge is likely an adaptation to an extreme environment

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kelley, Joanna L ^a,b   Peyton, Justin T ^c   Fiston Lavier, Anna Sophie ^a,d   Teets, Nicholas M ^c,e   Yee, Muh Ching ^a,f   Johnston, J Spencer ^g   Bustamante, Carlos D ^a   Lee, Richard E ^h   Denlinger, David L ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; DNA;

ADAPTATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTREMOPHILE; GENE; GENOME; INSECT;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ALLELE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTARCTICA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BELGICA ANTARCTICA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GLACIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INSECT GENOME; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRON; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PEDICULUS; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; REDUCTION; RETROPOSON; SALIVARY GLAND; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; COLD; ENVIRONMENT; GENE; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA; ENVIRONMENT; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, INSECT; INTRONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 84907411729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5611     Document Type: Article

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