Transcriptome Sequencing of the Blind Subterranean Mole Rat, Spalax galili: Utility and Potential for the Discovery of Novel Evolutionary Patterns

• Assaf Malik,

  Affiliation Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Abraham Korol,

  Affiliation Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Sariel Hübner,

  Affiliation Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Alvaro G. Hernandez,

  Affiliation W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Jyothi Thimmapuram,

  Affiliation W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Shahjahan Ali,

  Current address: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  Affiliation W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Fabian Glaser,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Knowledge Unit, The Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Arnon Paz,

  Affiliation Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Aaron Avivi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Avivi, Mark Band

  * E-mail: markband@illinois.edu (MB); aaron@research.haifa.ac.il (AA)

  Affiliation Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Mark Band

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Avivi, Mark Band

  * E-mail: markband@illinois.edu (MB); aaron@research.haifa.ac.il (AA)

  Affiliation W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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