Sequencing the
genome of the Denisovans, a mysterious group
of prehistoric hominins, suggests that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans and
humans seems to have been common, rather than the rarity previously assumed — which further drives home the idea that we are the sole survivors
of a precarious evolutionary process, rather than the
end of a neat line
of descent.
Ending a long - standing mystery that once set the unidentified flying object community abuzz, researchers have
sequenced the entire
genome of a strange, 15 - centimeter - tall
human skeleton and identified mutations that may be responsible for its odd appearance.
We are grateful to J. Romero - Severson for developing the N. vitripennis BAC library; Stephen Richards and the Baylor
Human Genome Sequencing center for sequencing of BAC clones as part of the Nasonia genome project; Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Jen Traggis, Laramy Enders, and Adityarup Chakravorty for assistance with laboratory work; Heinrich Jasper for advice on qPCR; and Claude Desplan for comments on the manus
Genome Sequencing center for sequencing of BAC clones as part of the Nasonia genome project; Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Jen Traggis, Laramy Enders, and Adityarup Chakravorty for assistance with laboratory work; Heinrich Jasper for advice on qPCR; and Claude Desplan for comments on the m
Sequencing center for
sequencing of BAC clones as part of the Nasonia genome project; Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Jen Traggis, Laramy Enders, and Adityarup Chakravorty for assistance with laboratory work; Heinrich Jasper for advice on qPCR; and Claude Desplan for comments on the m
sequencing of BAC clones as part
of the Nasonia
genome project; Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Jen Traggis, Laramy Enders, and Adityarup Chakravorty for assistance with laboratory work; Heinrich Jasper for advice on qPCR; and Claude Desplan for comments on the manus
genome project; Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Jen Traggis, Laramy
Enders, and Adityarup Chakravorty for assistance with laboratory work; Heinrich Jasper for advice on qPCR; and Claude Desplan for comments on the manuscript.
To this
end, his work often relies on anthropology and
human history as much as it does on
genome sequencing and computation, in order to decipher the subtle genetic signatures that appear when species undergo major events such as population bottlenecks, large - scale migration or dispersal events, or the development
of resistance to disease.