Open AccessInto Thin Air and Back: Deer Mouse Study Examines High-Altitude Adaptation
Author(s) -
Joseph Caspermeyer
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
molecular biology and evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.637
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1537-1719
pISSN - 0737-4038
DOI - 10.1093/molbev/msv100
Subject(s) - biology , adaptation (eye) , altitude (triangle) , effects of high altitude on humans , evolutionary biology , anatomy , neuroscience , geometry , mathematics
Life has adapted to all sorts of extreme environments on Earth, among them, animals such as the deer mouse, shimmying and shivering about, and having to squeeze enough energy from the cold, thin air to fuel their bodies and survive.
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