Fig. 4: Schematic mechanisms of thermostasis and energy homeostasis pathways in the four desert rodents. | Communications Biology

Fig. 4: Schematic mechanisms of thermostasis and energy homeostasis pathways in the four desert rodents.

From: Similar adaptative mechanism but divergent demographic history of four sympatric desert rodents in Eurasian inland

Fig. 4

a Alterations in the thermogenesis pathway, insulin related pathway, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease pathway of the four desert rodents. Genes in yellow background are PSGs, genes in violet background are REGs, and red genes are under convergent evolution. The symbol next to the gene indicates the species in which the gene has evolved. DS, Dipus sagitta, OS, Orientallactaga sibirica, MM, Meriones meridianus, PR, Phodopus roborovskii. b Evolved genes in the oxidative phosphorylation of the four desert rodents. Genes in red are PSGs, genes in green are REGs, and violet genes are under both positive selection and rapidly evolving. Different colored bars represent different species. The five sections of the same colored bar correspond to the five complexes. The underlying graph of the mitochondrial electron transport chain is from the KEGG website (https://www.genome.jp/pathway/mmu00190).

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