The Beaver's Phylogenetic Lineage Illuminated by Retroposon Reads.

ABSTRACT: Solving problematic phylogenetic relationships often requires high quality genome data. However, for many organisms such data are still not available. Among rodents, the phylogenetic position of the beaver has always attracted special interest. The arrangement of the beaver's masseter (jaw-closer) muscle once suggested a strong affinity to some sciurid rodents (e.g., squirrels), placing them in the Sciuromorpha suborder. Modern molecular data, however, suggested a closer relationship of beaver to the representatives of the mouse-related clade, but significant data from virtually homoplasy-free markers (for example retroposon insertions) for the exact position of the beaver have not been available. We derived a gross genome assembly from deposited genomic Illumina paired-end reads and extra

SUBMITTER: Doronina L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5335264 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature