The Sinocyclocheilus cavefish genome provides insights into cave adaptation

BMC Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yang, Junxing ^a   Chen, Xiaoli ^b   Bai, Jie ^b,c,d   Fang, Dongming ^b,f   Qiu, Ying ^b,c,e   Jiang, Wansheng ^a   Yuan, Hui ^b   Bian, Chao ^b,c   Lu, Jiang ^b,g   He, Shiyang ^b,g   Pan, Xiaofu ^a   Zhang, Yaolei ^b,h   Wang, Xiaoai ^a   You, Xinxin ^b,c   Wang, Yongsi ^b   Sun, Ying ^b,e   Mao, Danqing ^b   Liu, Yong ^b   Fan, Guangyi ^b   Zhang, He ^b   Chen, Xiaoyong ^a   Zhang, Xinhui ^b,c   Zheng, Lanping ^a   Wang, Jintu ^b   Cheng, Le ^e,i   Chen, Jieming ^b,c   Ruan, Zhiqiang ^b,c   Li, Jia ^b,c,g   Yu, Hui ^b,c,g   Peng, Chao ^b,c   Ma, Xingyu ^j,k   Xu, Junmin ^j,k   He, You ^l   Xu, Zhengfeng ^m   Xu, Pao ⁿ   Wang, Jian ^b,o   Yang, Huanming ^b,o   Wang, Jun ^b,p   Whitten, Tony ^d   Xu, Xun ^b   Shi, Qiong ^b,c,j,k   more..

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics   (China)

^d FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

ⁱ BGI Yunnan BGI Shenzhen   (China)

^j BGI ARK Biotechnology Co Ltd   (China)

^k Zhenjiang BGI Fisheries Science and Technology Industrial Co Ltd   (China)

^l SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^m NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁿ SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^o James D Watson of Institute of Genome Sciences   (China)

^p UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

more..

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cavefish; Evolution; Genome; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Sinocyclocheilus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CAVE; CHINA; CYPRINIDAE; EVOLUTION; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HEARING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TASTE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAVES; CHINA; CYPRINIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HEARING; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TASTE;

EID: 84952761040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0223-4     Document Type: Article

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