In summary, our strategy as it pertains to our study species, involved generating a de novo transcriptome for the chipmunk (T. alpinus), designing an array based on identified exons, pooling individually barcoded genomic libraries of a few moderately divergent species (T.
Genetic divergence in both coding and regulatory regions of retained paralogs was bimodal, with a deficit in moderately divergent paralogs; in particular, non-coding sequences were either conserved or entirely remodelled.
In a draft policy first reported last week by The Washington Post, NOAA says that "hatchery fish that are genetically no more than moderately divergent from a natural population... will be considered" in deciding whether to add a specific population to the endangered list.
During recombination mismatches and small insertions/deletion can arise as a result of strand exchange between moderately divergent (homologous) sequences [30].
Heterogeneity of evolutionary rates within a protein sequence thus explains why Blast sensitivity is quite decoupled from overall divergence, at least for moderately divergent sequences.
In this study, we identify a total of 5,286 putative IESs across three moderately divergent species of the P. aurelia species complex, P. tetraurelia, P. biaurelia, and P. sexaurelia (Sonneborn 1975; Catania et al. 2009).
An important difference, however, is that the correlation is somewhat weaker for paralogues for weakly to moderately divergent sequences.
For instance, Goodenia and Musa are highly divergent for atp1 but only moderately divergent for cox1.
This seems reasonable in most complexes, where clones were only moderately divergent from nearest sexual ancestors.
It can be seen that highly divergent (∼1.5 2%) and moderately divergent microsatellites (∼0.5 1%) are dominant in the Drosophila genome.
