Karyotypic and molecular evidence supports the endemic Tibetan hamsters as a separate divergent lineage of Cricetinae

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...

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Main Authors: Svetlana A. Romanenko, Vladimir S. Lebedev, Anna A. Bannikova, Svetlana V. Pavlova, Natalia A. Serdyukova, Natalia Yu. Feoktistova, Qu Jiapeng, Sun Yuehua, Alexey V. Surov, Alexander S. Graphodatsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89890-1