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p53 gene discriminates two ecologically divergent sister species of pine voles.
Heredity - 1 Nov 2015
Quina A S, Bastos-Silveira C, Miñarro M, Ventura J, Jiménez R, Paulo O S, da Luz Mathias M
Abstract excerpt
Genes with relevant roles in the differentiation of closely-related species are likely to have diverged simultaneously with the species and more accurately reproduce the species tree. The Lusitanian (Microtus lusitanicus) and Mediterranean (M. duodecimcostatus) pine voles are two recently separated sister species with fossorial lifestyles whose different ecological, physiological and morphological phenotypes...
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