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Adaptive Evolution in the Glucose Transporter 4 Gene Slc2a4 in Old World Fruit Bats (Family: Pteropodidae)

Frugivorous and nectarivorous bats are able to ingest large quantities of sugar in a short time span while avoiding the potentially adverse side-effects of elevated blood glucose. The glucose transporter 4 protein (GLUT4) encoded by the Slc2a4 gene plays a critical role in transmembrane skeletal mus...

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Autores principales: Shen, Bin, Han, Xiuqun, Zhang, Junpeng, Rossiter, Stephen J., Zhang, Shuyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22493665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033197