Sunday, November 25, 2018

Sweeping gene survey reveals new facets of evolution

phys.org/news

Who would have suspected that a handheld genetic test used to unmask sushi bars pawning off tilapia for tuna could deliver deep insights into evolution, including how new species emerge?
And who would have thought to trawl through five million of these gene snapshots—called "DNA barcodes"—collected from 100,000 animal  by hundreds of researchers around the world and deposited in the US government-run GenBank database?

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