Rhythmic genomics -- the yeast metronome and the walk of life
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 09:42
in Biology & Nature
New genome sequence information from the humble baker's yeast has revealed surprising variation in a set of genes that can be thought of as nature's oldest clock. In a paper published in Genome Research scientists show how ribosomal RNA genes that are essential to all Earth's organisms provide insight into how genomes maintain their integrity on their evolutionary journey.
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