The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two ...

Major genomics AI project to analyze 750 wild yeast for valuable attributes for many different industrial applications.

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

Earth BioGenome Project to sequence the genome of nearly 40,000 plant, animal and fungi species in Catalan-speaking territories (IMAGE) University of Barcelona Caption .The Catalan Initiative for the ...

Scientists have sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome. Their data help to explain how the fish-ancestors of today's land vertebrates were able to conquer land. Thirty times ...

Today marks the publication by two different studies presenting the near-complete reference genomes of the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps), a widely distributed species of dragon lizard ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current genetic research. Because of its 91 billion DNA base pairs, it has now ...