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‘Obesity’ is healthy for cetaceans? Evidence from pervasive positive selection in genes related to triacylglycerol metabolism

Cetaceans are a group of secondarily adapted marine mammals with an enigmatic history of transition from terrestrial to fully aquatic habitat and subsequent adaptive radiation in waters around the world. Numerous physiological and morphological cetacean characteristics have been acquired in response...

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Autores principales: Wang, Zhengfei, Chen, Zhuo, Xu, Shixia, Ren, Wenhua, Zhou, Kaiya, Yang, Guang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26381091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14187