Code for manuscript Divergent Gerbil Genes

The scripts in this repository were written during the preparation of the following manuscript (in press at BMC Evolutionary Biology):

Divergent genes in gerbils: prevalence, relation to GC-biased substitution, and phenotypic relevance.

Yichen Dai, Rodrigo Pracana and Peter WH Holland

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ, UK

In this manuscript, we analysed the divergence between the protein-coding genes of two gerbil species and those of other rodents and of H. sapiens.