Similar adaptative mechanism but divergent demographic history of four sympatric desert rodents in Eurasian inland

Genome assembles for Northern three-toed jerboa, Siberian jerboa, Midday jird and Desert hamster and provides insights into similarities and differences in mechanisms for desert adaptation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jilong Cheng, Xingwen Peng, Hong Li, Anderson Feijó, Lin Xia, Georgy I. Shenbrot, Deyan Ge, Zhixin Wen, Dehua Wang, Qisen Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04415-y