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Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in cetaceans.

BMC evolutionary biology - 14 Apr 2011

McGowen Michael R, Montgomery Stephen H, Clark Clay, Gatesy John

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BACKGROUND: Representatives of Cetacea have the greatest absolute brain size among animals, and the largest relative brain size aside from humans. Despite this, genes implicated in the evolution of large brain size in primates have yet to be surveyed in cetaceans. RESULTS: We sequenced ~1240 basepairs of the brain development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in 38 cetacean species. Alignments of these data and a...

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PMID: 21492470
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-98
PMCID: PMC3101173

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