Hypoxia adaptations in the grey wolf (Canis lupus chanco) from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The Tibetan grey wolf (Canis lupus chanco) occupies habitats on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a high altitude (>3000 m) environment where low oxygen tension exerts unique selection pressure on individuals to adapt to hypoxic conditions. To identify genes involved in hypoxia adaptation, we generated...

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Main Authors: Wenping Zhang, Zhenxin Fan, Eunjung Han, Rong Hou, Liang Zhang, Marco Galaverni, Jie Huang, Hong Liu, Pedro Silva, Peng Li, John P Pollinger, Lianming Du, XiuyYue Zhang, Bisong Yue, Robert K Wayne, Zhihe Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-07-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4117439?pdf=render