Supmaximum lifespan and brain size in mammals are associated with gene family size expansion related to immune system functions

Albus Kilili, Benjamin Padilla Morales, Atahualpa Castillo Morales, Jimena Monzón Sandoval, Karina Díaz-Barba, Paola Cornejo-Páramo, Orsolya Vincze, Mathieu Giraudeau, Stephen J. Bush, Zhidan Li, Lu Chen, Evangelos Mourkas, Sergio Ancona, Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer, Diego Cortez, Humberto Gutierrez, Tamas Szekely, Alin Patricia Acuna Alonzo, Araxi Urrutia Odabachian

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Original languageEnglish
JournalScientific Reports
Publication statusAcceptance date - 15 Apr 2025

Funding

This study was supported by a TRNC Department of Higher Education and Foreign Affairs State Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, The Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund 2020 and Santander Mobility Award 2020 to HK; CONACyT PhD scholarships to APAA, ACM and JMS; a University of Bath fee PhD scholarship to BPM; a travel grant SEP-UNAM-FUNAM Programa de Capacitación en Métodos de investigación, the Korner Travelling Fellowship Fund and TELMEX foundation fellowship to KDB; a travel grant SEP-UNAM-FUNAM Programa de Capacitación en Métodos de Investigación/2016 and a special grant from the Undergraduate Programme on Genomic Sciences – UNAM to PCP; a János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and by the grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0502, within PNCDI III to OV, a Frontiers in Science CONACyT grant (No. FC-2016 /1682) and a Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship (no. NA160564) to TS, DC and AOU; a Frontiers in Science CONACyT (FC-2020 / 682142) to SA, AGV, DC, HG and AOU; a NERC grant (NE/P004121/1) and PAPPIT-DGAPA-UNAM grant (IA204020) to AOU.

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Natural Environment Research CouncilNE/P004121/1

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