Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Evolutionary trajectories of snake genes and genomes revealed by comparative analyses of five-pacer viper

  • Wei Yin,
  • Zong-ji Wang,
  • Qi-ye Li,
  • Jin-ming Lian,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Bing-zheng Lu,
  • Li-jun Jin,
  • Peng-xin Qiu,
  • Pei Zhang,
  • Wen-bo Zhu,
  • Bo Wen,
  • Yi-jun Huang,
  • Zhi-long Lin,
  • Bi-tao Qiu,
  • Xing-wen Su,
  • Huan-ming Yang,
  • Guo-jie Zhang,
  • Guang-mei Yan,
  • Qi Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13107
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Snakes have many characteristics that distinguish them from their relatives. Here, Yin et al. sequence the genome of the five-pacer viper, Deinagkistrodon acutus, and use comparative genomic analyses to elucidate the evolution of transposable elements, developmental genes and sex chromosomes in snakes.