Discovery -- marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 19:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the department of zoology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a process involved in marsupial and human fetal development, which evolved 150 million years ago.