Researchers have assembled the California Academy of Sciences» first - ever
animal genome after sequencing the DNA of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina).
Not exact matches
Researchers were able to complete the first
genome - wide screen of a mouse by injecting small hairpin RNAs into the embryos of 100 pregnant mice and analyzing the
animals after birth to look for genes that contributed to tumor growth.
A proteome - based phylogeny shows that the amoebozoa diverged from the
animal - fungal lineage
after the plant -
animal split, but Dictyostelium seems to have retained more of the diversity of the ancestral
genome than have plants,
animals or fungi.