BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Molecular basis of a novel adaptation to hypoxic-hypercapnia in a strictly fossorial mole

Kevin L Campbell1*, Jay F Storz2, Anthony V Signore1, Hideaki Moriyama2, Kenneth C Catania3, Alexander P Payson4, Joseph Bonaventura4, Jörg Stetefeld5 and Roy E Weber6

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1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA

3 Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA

4 Duke University Medical Center and Nicholas School of the Environment Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA

5 Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

6 Zoophysiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DK 8000, Denmark

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:214 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-214

Published: 16 July 2010

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Table S1. Primers used to amplify the HBA and HBD genes from coast and eastern mole DNA.

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Table S2. Oligonucleotides used to probe the HBA and HBD genes from coast and eastern mole cDNA.

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