Gene loss more important in animal kingdom evolution than previously thought
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:10
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have shown that some key points of animal evolution—like the ones leading to humans or insects—were associated with a large loss of genes in the genome. The study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, compared over 100 genomes to investigate what happened at the gene level during the evolution of animals after their origin.