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Human local adaptation of the TRPM8 cold receptor along a latitudinal cline.
PLoS genetics - 1 May 2018
Key Felix M, Abdul-Aziz Muslihudeen A, Mundry Roger, Peter Benjamin M, Sekar Aarthi, D'Amato Mauro, Dennis Megan Y, Schmidt Joshua M, Andrés Aida M
Abstract excerpt
Ambient temperature is a critical environmental factor for all living organisms. It was likely an important selective force as modern humans recently colonized temperate and cold Eurasian environments. Nevertheless, as of yet we have limited evidence of local adaptation to ambient temperature in populations from those environments. To shed light on this question, we exploit the fact that humans are a cosmopolitan...
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