Title |
Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenomic resolution within Spalacidae (Rodentia)
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-32 |
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Authors |
Gong-Hua Lin, Kun Wang, Xiao-Gong Deng, Eviatar Nevo, Fang Zhao, Jian-Ping Su, Song-Chang Guo, Tong-Zuo Zhang, Huabin Zhao |
Abstract |
Subterranean mammals have been of great interest for evolutionary biologists because of their highly specialized traits for the life underground. Owing to the convergence of morphological traits and the incongruence of molecular evidence, the phylogenetic relationships among three subfamilies Myospalacinae (zokors), Spalacinae (blind mole rats) and Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats) within the family Spalacidae remain unresolved. Here, we performed de novo transcriptome sequencing of four RNA-seq libraries prepared from brain and liver tissues of a plateau zokor (Eospalax baileyi) and a hoary bamboo rat (Rhizomys pruinosus), and analyzed the transcriptome sequences alongside a published transcriptome of the Middle East blind mole rat (Spalax galili). We characterize the transcriptome assemblies of the two spalacids, and recover the phylogeny of the three subfamilies using a phylogenomic approach. |
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