High-speed evolution in the lab: Geneticists evaluate cost-effective genome analysis
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
Life implies change. And this holds true for genes as well. Organisms require a flexible genome in order to adapt to changes in the local environment. Researchers want to know why individuals differ from each other and how these differences are encoded in the DNA. In two review papers, they discuss why DNA sequencing of entire groups can be an efficient and cost-effective way to answer these questions.