Table 3.
Association between Allelic Variants at NRAP Residue 100 and Habitat across 113 Mammalian Species.
| No. Species |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residue | Amino Acid | Torpor/Hibernation | No Torpor/Hibernation | R 2 | P-valuea |
| 100 | His | 2b | 95 | 0.77 | 2.72 × 10−06 |
| Gln | 12 | 4 | |||
a
Phylogenetic logistic regression test.
b
Tenrec hibernates when it is hot rather than cold and the alpine squirrel. One species, the golden hamster, has not been included in the analysis as the only hibernating species which shows arginine (Arg), a descendant of glutamine (Gln) at the NRAP 100 position.