OMIA:002637-63631 : Adaptation, environment, generic in Hydrodamalis gigas (Steller's sea cow)

In other species: rainbow trout , Atlantic salmon , Atlantic cod , Southern cod-icefishes , bullfrog , Asian annulated sea snake , swan goose , chicken , Great Tit , hamadryas baboon , dog , true foxes , Corsac fox , giant panda , horse , pig , Bactrian camel , Arabian camel , reindeer , taurine cattle , indicine cattle (zebu) , goat , sheep , Mongolian gerbil , domestic yak , jerboas , Atlantic horse mackerel , muskox , woolly mammoth , Common warthog , snowshoe hare , turbot , Clouded leopard , Mountain hare , white-tailed jackrabbit , Wuchang bream , water buffalo , black-lipped pika , stone loach , pike icefish , Northern mole vole , Asiatic mouflon , snub-nosed monkeys , leafy seadragon

Categories: Normal phene

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown

Considered a defect: no

Species-specific description: Signore et al. (2023): "The extinct Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas; †1768) was a whale-sized marine mammal that manifested profound morphological specializations to exploit the harsh coastal climate of the North Pacific. .... Here, the adult-expressed hemoglobin (Hb; a2β/δ2) of this sirenian is shown to harbor a fixed amino acid replacement at an otherwise invariant position (β/δ82Lys→Asn) that alters multiple aspects of Hb function."

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2023). OMIA:002637-63631: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

Reference

2023 Signore, A.V., Morrison, P.R., Brauner, C.J., Fago, A., Weber, R.E., Campbell, K.L. :
Evolution of an extreme hemoglobin phenotype contributed to the sub-Arctic specialization of extinct Steller's sea cows. Elife 12, 2023. Pubmed reference: 37259901. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.85414.

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