A genomics approach reveals insights into the importance of gene losses for mammalian adaptations

Gene losses are generally considered detrimental, or at best neutral. Here, Sharma and colleagues present a new comparative genomics method to detect gene losses and highlight cases of gene losses in mammals that have potentially contributed to adaptive phenotypic innovations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Virag Sharma, Nikolai Hecker, Juliana G. Roscito, Leo Foerster, Bjoern E. Langer, Michael Hiller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03667-1