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Evolution of nonspectral rhodopsin function at high altitudes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Jul 2017
Castiglione Gianni M, Hauser Frances E, Liao Brian S, Lujan Nathan K, Van Nynatten Alexander, Morrow James M, Schott Ryan K, Bhattacharyya Nihar, Dungan Sarah Z, Chang Belinda S W
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High-altitude environments present a range of biochemical and physiological challenges for organisms through decreases in oxygen, pressure, and temperature relative to lowland habitats. Protein-level adaptations to hypoxic high-altitude conditions have been identified in multiple terrestrial endotherms; however, comparable adaptations in aquatic ectotherms, such as fishes, have not been as extensively...
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