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Long-lived rodents reveal signatures of positive selection in genes associated with lifespan and eusociality

2017-09-21

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The genetic mechanisms that determine lifespan are poorly understood. Most research has been done on short lived animals and it is unclear if these insights can be transferred to long-lived mammals like humans. Some African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) have life expectancies that are multiple times higher than similar sized and phylogenetically closely related rodents. We obtained genomic and transcriptomic data from...

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Literature Corpus work: 1d9dc4e8-5984-58a1-b162-ec79407e1d9c
DOI: 10.1101/191999

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