Physiological and genetic convergence supports hypoxia resistance in high-altitude songbirds

• Ying Xiong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Xiong, Liqing Fan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Liqing Fan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Xiong, Liqing Fan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Forest Ecosystem Observation & Research Station of Nyingchi Tibet, Institute of Plateau Ecology, Tibet Agriculture & Animal Husbandry University, Linzhi City, China, Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology in Tibet Plateau (Tibet Agriculture & Animal Husbandry University), Ministry of Education, Linzhi City, China

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• Yan Hao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1415-7610

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• Yalin Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1161-5716

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• Yongbin Chang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Jing Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Haiyan Lin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Gang Song,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yanhua Qu,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Fumin Lei

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leifm@ioz.ac.cn

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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