Ancestral genome of great apes and humans underwent burst of DNA sequence duplications

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 13:28 in Biology & Nature

The genome of the evolutionary ancestor of humans and present-day apes underwent a burst of activity in duplicating segments of DNA, according to a study to be published in Nature, 12 February, the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday...

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