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Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in cetaceans |
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| Authors: | Michael R McGowen Stephen H Montgomery Clay Clark and John Gatesy |
| Institution: | (1) Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA;(2) Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 540 E. Canfield Ave., Detroit, MI 48201, USA;(3) Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK |
| Abstract: | BackgroundRepresentatives of Cetacea have the greatest absolute brain size among animals, and the largest relative brain size aside from humans. Despite this, genes implicated in the evolution of large brain size in primates have yet to be surveyed in cetaceans. |
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