New Analysis of Rare Argentinian Rat Unlocks Origin of the Largest Mammalian Genome
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 10:22
in Biology & Nature
New biological information gleaned from the red vizcacha rat, a native species of Argentina, demonstrates how genomes can rapidly change in size. Researchers from McMaster University set out to study this particular species because its genome, or its complete set of DNA, is the largest of all mammals, and appears to have increased in size very rapidly.