Genome-Wide Scans for Candidate Genes Involved in the Aquatic Adaptation of Dolphins
Since their divergence from the terrestrial artiodactyls, cetaceans have fully adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, which represents one of the most dramatic transformations in mammalian evolutionary history. Numerous morphological and physiological characters of cetaceans have been acquired in response...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3595024/ |