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: Shen, Yong-Yi, Zhou, Wei-Ping, Zhou, Tai-Cheng, Zeng, Yan-Ni, Li, Gui-Mei, Irwin, David M., Zhang, Ya-Ping
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491009/