The advent of technology making feasible elucidation of whole genomic sequencing over the past 30 years has led to reports of many if not most important or interesting animal genomes.
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Defeating enemy within: How evolution helps clone fish with their genetic burden
According to scientific theories, clonal vertebrates actually have a harder time succeeding than species that reproduce sexually.
Clonal fish and still successful: the Amazon molly. | Photo: Davied Bierbach
One natural clone is the Amazon molly. A research team led by the Biozentrum of the University of Würzburg with the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has shown that over hundreds of thousands of years, this small fish has found a way to cope with the challenges of its origin and reproduction.
In the course of evolutionary adaptation, traits emerge that tend to be advantageous or disadvantageous to the survival or reproductive success of a species. This happens through natural mutation and subsequent selection. For a new trait to be inherited, it must have a genetic basis. Here, sexual reproduction has an advantage, because the offspring carry equal part
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Researchers discover new mammal reference genome that helps ID genetic variants for human health ANI | Updated: Dec 28, 2020 14:46 IST
Washington [US], December 28 (ANI): The rhesus macaque is the most widely studied nonhuman primate in biomedical research. A genome sequencing project for this species, led by a team of researchers has created a new framework for the study of this important primate.
Research published in the journal Science has established a new reference genome assembly and identified more than 85 million genetic variants in the rhesus macaque, the largest database of genetic variation for anyone nonhuman primate species to date. This is a major step forward in the amount of information we have about genetic variation in the rhesus macaque, said Dr. Jeffrey Rogers, associate professor at the Human Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor and one of the corresponding authors of the s
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The rhesus macaque is the most widely studied nonhuman primate in biomedical research. A genome sequencing project for this species, led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Missouri and the University of Washington, has created a new framework for study of this important primate. Research published in the journal
Science has established a new reference genome assembly and identified more than 85 million genetic variants in the rhesus macaque, the largest database of genetic variation for any one nonhuman primate species to date. This is a major step forward in the amount of information we have about genetic variation in the rhesus macaque, said Dr. Jeffrey Rogers, associate professor at the Human Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor and one of the corresponding authors of the study. We have actually identified thousands of new mutations in the population of research animals. Now colleagues all ov