6/1/2023 0 Comments Flying High by Stormy Glenn![]() ![]() "They show how important these large consortia and foundational datasets really are." "These 11 papers are just a sampling of the type of science that can be done with the new genetic data," says Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The findings from this enormous amount of genetic data include pinpointing genes that underlie the ability to hibernate or how brains grew larger, as well as identifying the small fraction of genes that makes humans unique. The research brings new insights from the Zoonomia Project, an unprecedented collaborative effort led by Elinor Karlsson, director of the Vertebrate Genomics Group at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, that compares and analyzes the complete genomes of 240 different mammalian species, from aardvarks to zebus. ![]() In what Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and HHMI Professor Beth Shapiro calls a treasure trove of research, more than 150 researchers from 50 institutions are publishing 11 different papers in the April 28, 2023, issue of Science. ![]() And now comes a major installment of that promise. ![]()
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