A comparative genomics study of carbohydrate/glucose metabolic genes: from fish to mammals

Abstract Background Glucose plays a key role as an energy source in most mammals, but its importance in fish appears to be limited that so far seemed to belong to diabetic humans only. Several laboratories worldwide have made important efforts in order to better understand this strange phenotype obs...

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Main Authors: Yuru Zhang, Chaobin Qin, Liping Yang, Ronghua Lu, Xiaoyan Zhao, Guoxing Nie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4647-4