Gene loss more important in animal kingdom evolution than previously thought

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 09:50 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 compared over 100 genomes to investigate what happened at the gene level during the evolution of animals after their origin.

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