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Recent Evolution in Rattus norvegicus Is Shaped by Declining Effective Population Size

The brown rat, Rattus norvegicus, is both a notorious pest and a frequently used model in biomedical research. By analyzing genome sequences of 12 wild-caught brown rats from their presumed ancestral range in NE China, along with the sequence of a black rat, Rattus rattus, we investigate the selecti...

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Autores principales: Deinum, Eva E., Halligan, Daniel L., Ness, Rob W., Zhang, Yao-Hua, Cong, Lin, Zhang, Jian-Xu, Keightley, Peter D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4576703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26037536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv126