Comparative genomics reveals convergent evolution between the bamboo-eating giant and red pandas

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

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1081-1086

  Hu, Yibo ^a   Wu, Qi ^a   Ma, Shuai ^a,b   Ma, Tianxiao ^a,b   Shan, Lei ^a   Wang, Xiao ^a,b   Nie, Yonggang ^a   Ning, Zemin ^c   Yan, Li ^a   Xiu, Yunfang ^d   Wei, Fuwen ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acid convergence; De novo genome; Phenotype convergence; Positive selection; Pseudogenization

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; FATTY ACID; VITAMIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENOME; BAMBOO; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DYNC2H1 GENE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; GIANT PANDA; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PCNT GENE; PHYTONUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED PANDA; TAS1R1 GENE; TASTE BUD; UMAMI; ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BAMBUSA; BEAR; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DIGESTION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AILURIDAE; ANIMALS; BAMBUSA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENOME; HERBIVORY; MAMMALS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE BUDS; TOES; URSIDAE;

EID: 85011283291     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613870114     Document Type: Article

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