Genome of ancient-looking fish gives clues to first limbed landlubbers
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
The genome of the coelacanth, an ancient-looking lobed-finned fish, has been sequenced and is already providing insight to the evolutionary changes that allowed the first four-limbed animals, called tetrapods, to crawl out of the water and on to land.The sequence and preliminary analysis, reported Thursday in the journal Nature by a team spanning 40 research institutions and 12 countries, is a "ma...