Hominids adapted to metabolize ethanol long before human-directed fermentation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 458-463

  Carrigan, Matthew A ^a,b   Uryasev, Oleg ^b   Frye, Carole B ^b   Eckman, Blair L ^b   Myers, Candace R ^c   Hurley, Thomas D ^c   Benner, Steven A ^b  

^a Santa Fe College   (United States)

^b FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dehydrogenase; Ethanol; Evolution; Experimental paleogenetics; Primates

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE IV;

ADAPTATION; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ENZYME KINETICS; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; HOMINID; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; FERMENTATION; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIET; ETHANOL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERMENTATION; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84920983136     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404167111     Document Type: Article

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