Title : Adaptive evolution of the osmoregulation-related genes in cetaceans during secondary aquatic adaptation.

Pub. Date : 2013 Sep 9

PMID : 24015756






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1 By contrast, a series of positively selected amino acid residues identified in the ACE and AGT (two key members of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, RAAS) proteins of cetaceans suggests that RAAS might have been adapted to maintain the water and salt balance in response to a hyperosmotic environment. Salts angiotensin I converting enzyme Homo sapiens