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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Autores principales: 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
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/e42ab779ce7d4139a29bc64436672ad1
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Sumario: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.