Polar Bears Exhibit Genome-Wide Signatures of Bioenergetic Adaptation to Life in the Arctic Environment

Nitric oxide and energy metabolism in mammals

(2013) Zhaolai Dai et al.   BIOFACTORS

The Branch-Site Test of Positive Selection Is Surprisingly Robust but Lacks Power under Synonymous Substitution Saturation and Variation in GC

(2013) Walid H. Gharib et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fat cells directly sense temperature to activate thermogenesis

(2013) L. Ye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution

(2013) James A. Cahill et al.   PLoS Genetics

Galaxy tools to study genome diversity

(2013) Oscar C Bedoya-Reina et al.   GigaScience

An interglacial polar bear and an early Weichselian glaciation at Poolepynten, western Svalbard

(2012) Helena Alexanderson et al.   BOREAS

Time sequence of the intensification of the liver glucose production induced by high-fat diet in mice

(2012) Simoni Obici et al.   CELL BIOCHEMISTRY AND FUNCTION

Hibernation and seasonal fasting in bears: the energetic costs and consequences for polar bears

(2012) Charles T. Robbins et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Whole-genome sequencing of giant pandas provides insights into demographic history and local adaptation

(2012) Shancen Zhao et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The yak genome and adaptation to life at high altitude

(2012) Qiang Qiu et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Mammalian transcription factor A is a core component of the mitochondrial transcription machinery

(2012) Y. Shi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change

(2012) W. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nuclear Genomic Sequences Reveal that Polar Bears Are an Old and Distinct Bear Lineage

(2012) F. Hailer et al.   SCIENCE

Cytochrome c oxidase: Evolution of control via nuclear subunit addition

(2011) Denis Pierron et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Modulation of gene expression in heart and liver of hibernating black bears (Ursus americanus)

(2011) Vadim B Fedorov et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genetically effective population sizes of Antarctic seals estimated from nuclear genes

(2011) Caitlin Curtis et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline

(2011) Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial–Nuclear Interactions and Accelerated Compensatory Evolution: Evidence from the Primate Cytochrome c Oxidase Complex

(2011) Naoki Osada et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structure of the membrane domain of respiratory complex I

(2011) Rouslan G. Efremov et al.   NATURE

Ensembl 2012

(2011) P. Flicek et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Positive Darwinian Selection in the Piston That Powers Proton Pumps in Complex I of the Mitochondria of Pacific Salmon

(2011) Michael R. Garvin et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive thermogenesis and thermal conductance in wild-type and UCP1-KO mice

(2010) Carola W. Meyer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome

(2010) A. D. Foote et al.   Biology Letters

Genomic analysis of expressed sequence tags in American black bear Ursus americanus

(2010) Sen Zhao et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Estimation of census and effective population sizes: the increasing usefulness of DNA-based approaches

(2010) Gordon Luikart et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Disease Variants of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Helicase Encoded byC10orf2Differentially Alter Protein Stability, Nucleotide Hydrolysis, and Helicase Activity

(2010) Matthew J. Longley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The architecture of respiratory complex I

(2010) Rouslan G. Efremov et al.   NATURE

A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations

(2010) Ivan A Adzhubei et al.   NATURE METHODS

Adaptive evolution of energy metabolism genes and the origin of flight in bats

(2010) Y.-Y. Shen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear

(2010) C. Lindqvist et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary

(2009) Johannes Krause et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genetic Variation, Relatedness, and Effective Population Size of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the southern Beaufort Sea, Alaska

(2009) Matthew A. Cronin et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Human Dna2 Is a Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance Protein

(2009) J. P. Duxin et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods

(2009) M. Nozawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assembly of the oxidative phosphorylation system in humans: What we have learned by studying its defects

(2008) Erika Fernández-Vizarra et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

The adaptive evolution of the mammalian mitochondrial genome

(2008) Rute R da Fonseca et al.   BMC GENOMICS

LPS induces inflammatory responses in human aortic vascular smooth muscle cells via Toll-like receptor 4 expression and nitric oxide production

(2008) S HEO et al.   IMMUNOLOGY LETTERS

Regulation of oxidative phosphorylation, the mitochondrial membrane potential, and their role in human disease

(2008) Maik Hüttemann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOENERGETICS AND BIOMEMBRANES

Ensembl 2009

(2008) T. J. P. Hubbard et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Adaptive Evolution and Functional Redesign of Core Metabolic Proteins in Snakes

(2008) Todd A. Castoe et al.   PLoS One

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Modulation of gene expression in hibernating arctic ground squirrels

(2007) Jun Yan et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS