Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains

Elephants and fruit bats have evolved large brains even though they have lost a gene that is fundamental to the supply of energy to the brain when glucose is not available.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Cañestro, Cristian, Roncalli, Vittoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018
Materias:
Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6191282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30322446
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41912
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spelling pubmed-61912822018-10-21 Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains Cañestro, Cristian Roncalli, Vittoria eLife Evolutionary Biology Elephants and fruit bats have evolved large brains even though they have lost a gene that is fundamental to the supply of energy to the brain when glucose is not available. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6191282/ /pubmed/30322446 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41912 Text en © 2018, Cañestro et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
title Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
title_full Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
title_fullStr Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
title_full_unstemmed Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
title_short Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
title_sort gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
topic Evolutionary Biology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6191282/
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