Genome-wide scan for bats and dolphin to detect their genetic basis for new locomotive styles.

For most mammals, running is their major locomotive style, however, cetaceans and bats are two mammalian groups that have independently developed new locomotive styles (swimming and flying) from their terrestrial ancestors. In this study, we used a genome-wide comparative analysis in an attempt to i...

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Main Authors: Yong-Yi Shen, Wei-Ping Zhou, Tai-Cheng Zhou, Yan-Ni Zeng, Gui-Mei Li, David M Irwin, Ya-Ping Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3491009?pdf=render