Communications Biology (Jan 2023)

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

  • Jilong Cheng,
  • Xingwen Peng,
  • Hong Li,
  • Anderson Feijó,
  • Lin Xia,
  • Georgy I. Shenbrot,
  • Deyan Ge,
  • Zhixin Wen,
  • Dehua Wang,
  • Qisen Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04415-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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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.