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Biological adaptations in the Arctic cervid, the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
- View ORCID ProfileZeshan Lin1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileLei Chen1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileXianqing Chen1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileYingbin Zhong2,3,*,
- View ORCID ProfileYue Yang1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileWenhao Xia1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileChang Liu1,
- View ORCID ProfileWenbo Zhu1,
- View ORCID ProfileHan Wang2,3,
- Biyao Yan1,
- Yifeng Yang4,
- Xing Liu5,
- Kjersti Sternang Kvie6,
- Knut Håkon Røed6,
- View ORCID ProfileKun Wang1,
- Wuhan Xiao5,
- Haijun Wei4,
- Guangyu Li4,
- View ORCID ProfileRasmus Heller7,
- View ORCID ProfileM. Thomas P. Gilbert8,9,
- View ORCID ProfileQiang Qiu1,†,
- View ORCID ProfileWen Wang1,10,11,†,
- View ORCID ProfileZhipeng Li4,†
- 1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
- 2Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
- 3School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
- 4Department of Special Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130112, China.
- 5State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
- 6Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo 0102, Norway.
- 7Section for Computational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N 2200, Denmark.
- 8Section for Evolutionary Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N 2200, Denmark.
- 9Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, Trondheim 7491, Norway.
- 10State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
- 11Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
- ↵†Corresponding author: lizhipeng01{at}caas.cn (Z.L.); wwang{at}mail.kiz.ac.cn (W.W.); qiuqiang{at}lzu.edu.cn (Q.Q.)
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Science 21 Jun 2019:
Vol. 364, Issue 6446, eaav6312
DOI: 10.1126/science.aav6312
Vol. 364, Issue 6446, eaav6312
DOI: 10.1126/science.aav6312
Zeshan Lin
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Lei Chen
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Xianqing Chen
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Yingbin Zhong
2Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
3School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Yue Yang
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Wenhao Xia
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Chang Liu
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Wenbo Zhu
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Han Wang
2Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
3School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Biyao Yan
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Yifeng Yang
4Department of Special Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130112, China.
Xing Liu
5State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
Kjersti Sternang Kvie
6Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo 0102, Norway.
Knut Håkon Røed
6Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo 0102, Norway.
Kun Wang
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Wuhan Xiao
5State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
Haijun Wei
4Department of Special Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130112, China.
Guangyu Li
4Department of Special Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130112, China.
Rasmus Heller
7Section for Computational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N 2200, Denmark.
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
8Section for Evolutionary Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N 2200, Denmark.
9Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, Trondheim 7491, Norway.
Qiang Qiu
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
Wen Wang
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
10State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
11Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
Zhipeng Li
4Department of Special Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130112, China.
