Same High Altitude Adaptation Found in Dog and Man (IMAGE)

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)

Same High Altitude Adaptation Found in Dog and Man

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Ancient interbreeding with the Tibet grey wolf made the Tibetan Mastiff adapt to the high altitude. A similar evolutionary mechanism occurred in parallel in the Tibetan people, who received their high altitude adaptation after inbreeding with the Denisovans.

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Zhen Wang, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

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