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