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Genome evolution of blind subterranean mole rats: Adaptive peripatric versus sympatric speciation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Dec 2020
Li Kexin, Zhang Shangzhe, Song Xiaoying, Weyrich Alexandra, Wang Yinjia, Liu Xi, Wan Na, Liu Jianquan, Lövy Matěj, Cui Haihong, Frenkel Vladimir, Titievsky Avi, Panov Julia, Brodsky Leonid, Nevo Eviatar
Abstract excerpt
Speciation mechanisms remain controversial. Two speciation models occur in Israeli subterranean mole rats, genus Spalax: a regional speciation cline southward of four peripatric climatic chromosomal species and a local, geologic-edaphic, genic, and sympatric speciation. Here we highlight their genome evolution. The five species were separated into five genetic clusters by single nucleotide polymorphisms, copy...
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