Exploring the genetic basis of adaptation to high elevations in reptiles: A comparative transcriptome analysis of two toad-headed agamas (genus Phrynocephalus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Weizhao ^a,b   Qi, Yin ^a   Fu, Jinzhong ^a,c  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAM17 GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOLIS; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HSP90B1 GENE; MALE; MD GENE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHRYNOCEPHALUS PRZEWALSKII; PHRYNOCEPHALUS VLANGALII; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TURTLE; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; LIZARD;

ANURA; PHRYNOCEPHALUS; REPTILIA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84911450874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112218     Document Type: Article

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