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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Nannospalax galili
SUBMITTER: Yulan Yang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-49485 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature communications 20140603
The blind mole rat (BMR), Spalax galili, is an excellent model for studying mammalian adaptation to life underground and medical applications. The BMR spends its entire life underground, protecting itself from predators and climatic fluctuations while challenging it with multiple stressors such as darkness, hypoxia, hypercapnia, energetics and high pathonecity. Here we sequence and analyse the BMR genome and transcriptome, highlighting the possible genomic adaptive responses to the underground s ...[more]