Genome sequences of 12 fruit fly genomes: A comparison

Drosophila melanogaster, the fly extensively studied by TH Morgan, and a powerful model organism highly suited for the study of animal biology and evolution, is known from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific Islands. The different fly species range from cosmopolitan (D. melanogaster and D. simulans) to the ones inhabiting a single island only [...]

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Cat genome sequenced

Using the “light” (two-fold) genome sequence coverage approach scientists sequenced the DNA of cat. It is a 4-year-old Abyssinian cat named Cinnamon which is subject of the genome sequencing study published in the journal Genome Research. The similarity analysis between six previously sequenced mammalian genomes and the cat genome led to the identification of 20,285 [...]

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