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Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...
View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Scientists first aim to design genomes with minimal changes compared to the wild type to minimize the risk of failure. “The native microbe is ...
DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...
How are genomes compared and what can these findings tell us about how the overall structure of genes and genomes have evolved? Aa Aa Aa Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in ...
Weeds like Palmer amaranth make farming more difficult and less profitable, and available herbicides are becoming less ...
In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have recently successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ...
The genomes of the only two extant members of the Giraffidae family—the okapi (Okapi johnstoni) and the giraffe (subspecies Giraffa camelopardalis, tippelskirchi)—have been sequenced for the first ...
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...
An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.