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Karyotypic and molecular evidence supports the endemic Tibetan hamsters as a separate divergent lineage of Cricetinae
- Source :
- Scientific Reports, Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The genus status of Urocricetus was defined recently based on morphological and molecular data. Even though the amount of evidence for a separate phylogenetic position of this genus among Cricetinae continues to increase, there is still no consensus on its relationship to other groups. Here we give the first comprehensive description of the U. kamensis karyotype (2n = 30, NFa = 50) including results of comparative cytogenetic analysis and detailed examination of its phylogenetic position by means of numerous molecular markers. The molecular data strongly indicated that Urocricetus is a distant sister group to Phodopus. Comparative cytogenetic data showed significant reorganization of the U. kamensis karyotype compared to karyotypes of all other hamsters investigated earlier. The totality of findings undoubtedly means that Urocricetus belongs to a separate divergent lineage of Cricetinae.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Lineage (evolution)
Science
Evolutionary biology
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Cytogenetics
Species Specificity
Genus
Cricetinae
medicine
Animals
Phylogeny
Comparative genomics
Multidisciplinary
Phylogenetic tree
Karyotype
biology.organism_classification
Chromosome Banding
Phodopus
030104 developmental biology
Sister group
Karyotyping
Medicine
Female
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....45ab74346fea9dacbf72e2bcd9bdb2b5