From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genus of rodents
Psammomys is a
genus of
rodents in the family
Muridae.
[1]
The etymology of the genus name derives from the two
Ancient Greek words
ψάμμος (psámmos), meaning "sand", and
μῦς (mûs), meaning "mouse, rat".
[2]
[3]
The complete nuclear DNA genome of one Psamomys species, P. obesus, has been sequenced in 2017.
[4]
It contains the following species:
References
-
^
Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005).
"Genus Psammomys". In
Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.).
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531.
ISBN
978-0-8018-8221-0.
OCLC
62265494.
-
^ Bailly, Anatole (1981-01-01). Abrégé du dictionnaire grec français. Paris: Hachette.
ISBN
2010035283.
OCLC
461974285.
-
^ Bailly, Anatole.
"Greek-french dictionary online". www.tabularium.be. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
-
^ Hargreaves, Adam D.; Zhou, Long; Christensen, Josef; Marlétaz, Ferdinand; Liu, Shiping; Li, Fang; Jansen, Peter Gildsig; Spiga, Enrico; Hansen, Matilde Thye; Pedersen, Signe Vendelbo Horn; Biswas, Shameek; Serikawa, Kyle; Fox, Brian A.; Taylor, William R.; Mulley, John Frederick; Zhang, Guojie; Heller, R. Scott; Holland, Peter W. H. (2017-07-18).
"Genome sequence of a diabetes-prone rodent reveals a mutation hotspot around the ParaHox gene cluster". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (29): 7677–7682.
doi:
10.1073/pnas.1702930114.
ISSN
0027-8424.
PMC
5530673.
PMID
28674003.