Into the DNA of a coral reef predator

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 12:51 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have sequenced and decoded for the first time the genome of the crown-of-thorns starfish, paving the way for the biocontrol of this invasive predator responsible for the destruction of coral reefs across Indo-Pacific oceans.

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