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ArticleMolecular ecology2025

Divergence in Regulatory Regions and Gene Duplications May Underlie Chronobiological Adaptation in Desert Tortoises.

N Jade Mellor, Timothy H Webster, Hazel Byrne, Avery S Williams, Taylor Edwards, Dale F DeNardo, Melissa A Wilson, Kenro Kusumi, Greer A Dolby

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Article in Molecular ecology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Chromosome-length genome assembly ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

N Jade MellorDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-5209-6827
Timothy H WebsterDepartment of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1174-2395
Hazel ByrneDepartment of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0351-3181
Avery S WilliamsDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4987-0600
Taylor EdwardsArizona Molecular Clinical Core, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7235-6175
Dale F DeNardoSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Melissa A WilsonSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2614-0285
Kenro KusumiSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1458-4540
Greer A DolbyDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5923-0690

Funding

Population dynamics and medical consequences of sex chromosome evolutionR35GM124827 · NIGMS · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI WILSON, MELISSA A · 2017 to 2024
$2.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124827
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many cellular processes and organismal behaviours are time-dependent, and asynchrony of these phenomena can facilitate speciation through reinforcement mechanisms. The Mojave and Sonoran desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii and G. morafkai respectively) reside in adjoining deserts with distinct seasonal rainfall patterns and they exhibit asynchronous winter brumation and reproductive behaviours. We used whole genome sequencing of 21 individuals from the two tortoise species and an outgroup to understand genes potentially underlying these characteristics. Genes within the most diverged 1% of the genome (F

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Desert ClimateGene DuplicationTurtlesAdaptation, PhysiologicalAnimalsPromoter Regions, GeneticRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidWhole Genome Sequencingcircadiancircannualmucinpromoterreinforcementspeciation

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PMID39624910
PMCPMC11774117

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