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A refined model of the genomic basis for phenotypic variation in vertebrate hemostasis.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 Jun 2015
Ribeiro Ângela M, Zepeda-Mendoza M Lisandra, Bertelsen Mads F, Kristensen Annemarie T, Jarvis Erich D, Gilbert M Thomas P, da Fonseca Rute R
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BACKGROUND: Hemostasis is a defense mechanism that enhances an organism's survival by minimizing blood loss upon vascular injury. In vertebrates, hemostasis has been evolving with the cardio-vascular and hemodynamic systems over the last 450 million years. Birds and mammals have very similar vascular and hemodynamic systems, thus the mechanism that blocks ruptures in the vasculature is expected to be the same....
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