Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Genome sequence of a diabetes-prone desert rodent reveals a mutation hotspot around the ParaHox gene cluster
A. D. Hargreaves, L. Zhou, J. Christensen…·P. W. H. Holland
The paper sequences the genome of a diabetes-prone desert rodent and identifies a mutation hotspot around the ParaHox gene cluster, including the Pdx1 gene, showing extreme divergence due to GC-biased mutation.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1702930114