Naked but not hairless: The pitfalls of analyses of molecular adaptation based on few genome sequence comparisons

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 768-774

  Delsuc, Frédéric ^a   Tilak, Marie Ka ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Hairless; Mammals; Molecular evolution; Naked mole rat; Phylogenetics; Rodents

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; EXON; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAIR; MAMMAL; MOLE RAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENOMICS; HAIR; MAMMALS; MOLE RATS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84938565279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv036     Document Type: Article

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