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| Keith Hudson |
 Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:34 pm |
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There has been a fascinating debate going on recently about gene
transfer/mutation. I can't locate thre thread right now but the
following will, I am sure, be of interest to those taking part.
Keith Hudson
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Research News from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Unscrambling the Gibbon Genome
The arboreal, branch-swinging antics of the gibbon are
nothing compared to the acrobatics its genome has undergone
during evolution. While the genomes of humans and other
primates still resemble that of their common ancestor, the
massive genomic scrambling of the gibbon genome has rendered
it a complex puzzle. Solving that puzzle, scientists
believe, could help reveal how evolution experiments with
genomic rearrangement, as well as how chromosomes can become
unstable in cancer and other genetic diseases.
Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers and their
colleagues have mapped in the finest detail yet the many
chromosomal breaks and rearrangements that have reshaped the
white-cheeked gibbon’s genome as it evolved.
Evan E. Eichler, Ph.D., HHMI investigator
University of Washington School of Medicine
For the full story, go to: http://www.hhmi.org//news/eichler20070216.html |
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