The genome of Mesobuthus martensii reveals a unique adaptation model of arthropods

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 4; no. 1; p. 2602
• Main Authors: Cao, Zhijian, Yu, Yao, Wu, Yingliang, Hao, Pei, Di, Zhiyong, He, Yawen, Chen, Zongyun, Yang, Weishan, Shen, Zhiyong, He, Xiaohua, Sheng, Jia, Xu, Xiaobo, Pan, Bohu, Feng, Jing, Yang, Xiaojuan, Hong, Wei, Zhao, Wenjuan, Li, Zhongjie, Huang, Kai, Li, Tian, Kong, Yimeng, Liu, Hui, Jiang, Dahe, Zhang, Binyan, Hu, Jun, Hu, Youtian, Wang, Bin, Dai, Jianliang, Yuan, Bifeng, Feng, Yuqi, Huang, Wei, Xing, Xiaojing, Zhao, Guoping, Li, Xuan, Li, Yixue, Li, Wenxin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15.10.2013; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/181/414; 631/208/212; Adaptation; Adaptation, Biological; Animals; Arthropod Proteins - classification; Arthropod Proteins - genetics; Arthropods; Biological Evolution; Biology; Chromosome Mapping; Climate change; Coumarins - metabolism; Defensins - classification; Defensins - genetics; Detoxification; Feeding behavior; Fluorescence; Gene Expression Profiling; Genes; Genome; Genomes; Humanities and Social Sciences; Living fossils; Morphology; multidisciplinary; Neurotoxins; Neurotoxins - classification; Neurotoxins - genetics; Phylogeny; Proteins; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Scorpions - classification; Scorpions - genetics; Transcriptome; China

Representing a basal branch of arachnids, scorpions are known as ‘living fossils’ that maintain an ancient anatomy and are adapted to have survived extreme climate changes. Here we report the genome sequence of Mesobuthus martensii , containing 32,016 protein-coding genes, the most among sequenced a...