Journal article
Runaway GC evolution in gerbil genomes
- Abstract:
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Recombination increases the local GC-content in genomic regions through GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC). The recent discovery of a large genomic region with extreme GC-content in the fat sand rat Psammomys obesus provides a model to study the effects of gBGC on chromosome evolution. Here, we compare the GC-content and GC-to-AT substitution patterns across protein-coding genes of four gerbil species and two murine rodents (mouse and rat). We find that the known high-GC region is present in al...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Molecular Biology and Evolution Journal website
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 2197–2210
- Place of publication:
- United States
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-1719
- ISSN:
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0737-4038
- Pmid:
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32170949
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1093874
- Local pid:
- pubs:1093874
- Deposit date:
- 2020-03-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Pracana et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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