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Mammalian keratin associated proteins (KRTAPs) subgenomes: disentangling hair diversity and adaptation to terrestrial and aquatic environments.

BMC genomics - 10 Sept 2014

Khan Imran, Maldonado Emanuel, Vasconcelos Vítor, O'Brien Stephen J, Johnson Warren E, Antunes Agostinho

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BACKGROUND: Adaptation of mammals to terrestrial life was facilitated by the unique vertebrate trait of body hair, which occurs in a range of morphological patterns. Keratin associated proteins (KRTAPs), the major structural hair shaft proteins, are largely responsible for hair variation. RESULTS: We exhaustively characterized the KRTAP gene family in 22 mammalian genomes, confirming the existence of 30 KRTAP...

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PMID: 25208914
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-779
PMCID: PMC4180150

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