Genetic signatures of adaptation revealed from transcriptome sequencing of Arctic and red foxes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kumar, Vikas ^a   Kutschera, Verena E ^a,b   Nilsson, Maria A ^a   Janke, Axel ^a,c  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic adaptation; Arctic fox; Positive selection; Red fox; Transcriptome; Vulpes lagopus; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; SPECIES COMPARISON; VULPES LAGOPUS; VULPES VULPES; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOX; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; URSUS MARITIMUS; VULPES; VULPES LAGOPUS; VULPES VULPES;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOXES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84938591418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1724-9     Document Type: Article

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