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The role of isoforms in the evolution of cryptic coloration in Peromyscus mice.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2017
Mallarino Ricardo, Linden Tess A, Linnen Catherine R, Hoekstra Hopi E
Abstract excerpt
A central goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic adaptation. While the contribution of protein-coding and cis-regulatory mutations to adaptive traits has been well documented, additional sources of variation - such as the production of alternative RNA transcripts from a single gene, or isoforms - have been understudied. Here, we focus on the pigmentation gene...
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