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Sensory rewiring in an echolocator: genome-wide modification of retinogenic and auditory genes in the bat Myotis davidii.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 4 Aug 2014
Hudson Nicholas J, Baker Michelle L, Hart Nathan S, Wynne James W, Gu Quan, Huang Zhiyong, Zhang Guojie, Ingham Aaron B, Wang Linfa, Reverter Antonio
Abstract excerpt
Bats comprise 20% of all mammalian species and display a number of characteristics, including true flight, echolocation, and a heightened ability to resist viral load that uniquely position this group for comparative genomic studies. Here we searched for evidence of genomic variation consistent with sensory rewiring through bat evolution. We focused on two species with divergent sensory preferences. Myotis...
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