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The smallest avian genomes are found in hummingbirds

It has often been suggested that the genome sizes of birds are constrained relative to other tetrapods owing to the high metabolic demands of powered flight and the link between nuclear DNA content and red blood cell size. This hypothesis predicts that hummingbirds, which engage in energy-intensive...

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Главные авторы: Gregory, T. Ryan, Andrews, Chandler B., McGuire, Jimmy A., Witt, Christopher C.
Формат: Artigo
Язык:Inglês
Опубликовано: The Royal Society 2009
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Online-ссылка:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817281/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19656792
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1004
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