RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus
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RNA expression and disease tolerance are associated with a “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster ochraceus
An overdominant mutation in an intron of the elongation factor 1-α (EF1A) gene in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus has shown itself to mediate tolerance to "sea star wasting disease", a pandemic that has significantly reduced sea star populations on the Pacific coast of North America. Here we use RNA sequencing of healthy individuals to identify differences in constitutive expression of gene reg...
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153994.].
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عنوان ژورنال: PeerJ
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3696