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We used as measure of evolutionary conservation the phastCons score [54] representing the probability that a given nucleotide is part of a block of conservation, given the genome alignments of a number of placental mammals (human, chimpanzee, rhesus monkey, bush baby, treeshrew, rat, mouse, guinea pig, rabbit, shrew, hedgehog, dog, cat, horse, cow, armadillo, elephant and tenrec).

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noun Any of various insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar and adjacent islands, similar to the hedgehog but having a long pointed snout and often no tail.

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We used as measure of evolutionary conservation the phastCons score [54] representing the probability that a given nucleotide is part of a block of conservation, given the genome alignments of a number of placental mammals (human, chimpanzee, rhesus monkey, bush baby, treeshrew, rat, mouse, guinea pig, rabbit, shrew, hedgehog, dog, cat, horse, cow, armadillo, elephant and tenrec). — PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Surveying GenBank, a database of gene sequences, the team was surprised to uncover the same transposons in other vertebrate genomes: tenrec (a hedgehog), little brown bat, mouse, rat, opossum, green anole lizard, and African clawed frog all had them. — Livescience.com
We studied the AOB of the Madagascan lesser tenrec Echinops telfairi (Afrotheria: Afrosoricida) and found that Gαi2 and Gαo proteins are expressed in rostral and caudal glomeruli, respectively. — ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
_tenrec_ [2] of Madagascar, its tropical representative, exhibits the same tendency during the period when excessive heat produces in that climate a like result. — Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon