Adaptations to a Subterranean Environment and Longevity Revealed by the Analysis of Mole Rat Genomes

Cell Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1354-1364

  Fang, Xiaodong ^a,b   Seim, Inge ^c,d   Huang, Zhiyong ^a   Gerashchenko, Maxim V ^c   Xiong, Zhiqiang ^a   Turanov, Anton A ^c   Zhu, Yabing ^a   Lobanov, Alexei V ^c   Fan, Dingding ^a   Yim, Sun Hee ^c   Yao, Xiaoming ^a   Ma, Siming ^c   Yang, Lan ^a   Lee, Sang Goo ^c,d   Kim, Eun Bae ^d   Bronson, Roderick T ^e   Šumbera, Radim ^f   Buffenstein, Rochelle ^g   Zhou, Xin ^a   Krogh, Anders ^b   Park, Thomas J ^h   Zhang, Guojie ^a,b   Wang, Jun ^a,b,i   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^c,d   more..

^a BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBIN; INSULIN; MELATONIN; OXYGEN; RNA 28S; TRANSCRIPTOME; ACTIN;

ANALGESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUKOMYS DAMARENSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCEPHALUS; HYPOXIA; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; RNA PROCESSING; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRESS; THERMOGENESIS; ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ACTINS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME; GLOBINS; INSULIN; LONGEVITY; MELATONIN; MOLE RATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; THERMOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84922541951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.07.030     Document Type: Article

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