The warm and loving tegu lizard becomes a genetic resource

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 10:50 in Biology & Nature

Published today in the open-access journal GigaScience is an article that presents the genome of the tegu lizard, which has mastered a trick that is highly unusual in the reptile world: it can turn on its own heating system. Most reptiles are not able to control their body temperature like mammals do and instead must rely on […]

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