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Functional variants of the melanocortin-4 receptor associated with the Odontoceti and Mysticeti suborders of cetaceans

Cetaceans, a group of mammals adapted to the aquatic environment that descended from terrestrial artiodactyls, exhibit tremendous interspecific differences in a number of phenotypes, including feeding behavior, such as filter feeding in the Mysticeti vs prey-hunting Odontoceti, and size, with the sm...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Liyuan, Zhou, Xiaofan, Rokas, Antonis, Cone, Roger D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5515947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28720755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05962-1