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Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome 'Tectonics'

The Quanta Podcast

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Genetics and Evolution - A New Era in Comparative Genomics

An international team of researchers has tracked changes in chromosomes that happened as much as 800 million years ago. They identified 29 big blocks of jeans that remained recognizable as they passed into three of the earliest subdivisions of multi cellular animal life. The work heralds a new era in comparative genomics, Harris lewan says.

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