Fig. 5: Local adaptation and response of QTP sakers to intense UV radiation. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Local adaptation and response of QTP sakers to intense UV radiation.

From: Arctic introgression and chromatin regulation facilitated rapid Qinghai-Tibet Plateau colonization by an avian predator

Fig. 5

a L*a*b* values of plumage color in feathers from MN (N = 11) and QTP sakers (N = 11). The yellow dots and black triangles represent MN and QTP sakers, respectively. In the box plots, the center line represents the median, whiskers represent maximum and minimum values, and box boundaries represent 75th and 25th percentiles. A two-sided t test was used. b Relative luciferase activity comparison between dominant MN- and dominant QTP- CREs in duck embryonic fibroblast cells. The ASIP-MN and ASIP-QTP groups were cloned into pGL3-Promoter vectors. Promoter (pGL3-Promoter) and Basic (pGL3-Basic) groups were used as controls, respectively. The bars display mean ± SD (N = 6 technical replicates). Three biologically independent replicates of luciferase experiment are shown in Supplementary Fig. 35. A two-sided t test was used. c A working model showing how dominant MN- and dominant QTP- CREs affect the eumelanin synthesis. “P” means promoter. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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