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Mesocricetus auratus (golden hamster) Mesocricetus auratus overview Lineage: Eukaryota[15558]; Metazoa[7784]; Chordata[3583]; Craniata[3548]; Vertebrata[3548]; Euteleostomi[3503]; Mammalia[873]; Eutheria[699]; Euarchontoglires[338]; Glires[143]; Rodentia[134]; Myomorpha[82]; Muroidea[77]; Cricetidae[37]; Cricetinae[4]; Mesocricetus[1]; Mesocricetus auratus[1]

Although the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is a very common pet worldwide, wild populations of this species are vulnerable to extinction. This species is native to a small region of fertile agricultural land that is densely populated by humans in the Aleppinian plateau near the Syrian-Turkish border. The primary threats to these wild More...populations are habitat loss due to increasing human settlement in the area, increasing agricultural use of the land, and pest control measures taken by farmers. Less...

Summary Sequence data:  genome assemblies: 3; sequence reads: 2  (See  Genome Assembly and Annotation report) Statistics:  median total length (Mb): 2500.76  median protein count: 53064  median GC%: 42.3 NCBI Annotation Release:  103 Publications (limited to 20 most recent records) duper is a null mutation of Cryptochrome 1 in Syrian hamsters. Lee YY, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022 May 3 De novo assembly, annotation, and characterization of the whole brain transcriptome of male and female Syrian hamsters. McCann KE, et al. Sci Rep 2017 Jan 10 Transcriptome sequencing and development of an expression microarray platform for liver infection in adenovirus type 5-infected Syrian golden hamsters. Ying B, et al. Virology 2015 Nov  Representative (genome information for reference and representative genomes) Reference genome:   Mesocricetus auratus BCM_Maur_2.0 Submitter: Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center Loc Type Name RefSeq INSDC Size (Mb) GC% Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Gene Pseudogene MT NC_013276.1 - 0.02 36.3 13 2 22 - 37 - Un - . - 2,457.06 42.3 53,051 18 468 14,749 36,120 3,818 Chromosomes Click on chromosome name to open Genome Data Viewer