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
Affiliations
- Wei Yin
- Department of Biochemistry, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
- Zong-ji Wang
- Life Sciences Institute, The Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University
- Qi-ye Li
- China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Jin-ming Lian
- China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Yang Zhou
- China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Bing-zheng Lu
- Department of Pharmacology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
- Li-jun Jin
- China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Peng-xin Qiu
- Department of Pharmacology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
- Pei Zhang
- China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Wen-bo Zhu
- Department of Pharmacology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
- Bo Wen
- BGI-Shenzhen
- Yi-jun Huang
- Department of Pharmacology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
- Zhi-long Lin
- BGI-Shenzhen
- Bi-tao Qiu
- China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Xing-wen Su
- Department of Pharmacology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
- Huan-ming Yang
- BGI-Shenzhen
- Guo-jie Zhang
- China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Guang-mei Yan
- Department of Pharmacology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University
- Qi Zhou
- Life Sciences Institute, The Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13107
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
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.