Eggplant pangenome and panphenome reveal diversity and adaptation potential

An international research collaboration, including INRAE, has published the complete set of genes (pangenome) and agronomic ...
Nature

Biggest genome ever found belongs to this odd little plant

A small, unassuming fern-like plant has something massive lurking within: the largest genome ever discovered, outstripping the human genome by more than 50 times 1. Study co-author Jaume Pellicer, an ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s Largest Animal Genome Belongs to an Odd, Air-Breathing Fish

The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) has the largest known genome of the animal kingdom at 91 billion base pairs of DNA. Katherine Seghers, Louisiana State University Scientists have ...
CNN

Scientists map DNA of prehistoric animal

Using next-generation instruments and groundbreaking DNA-reading techniques, scientists have uncovered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, a prehistoric species of ele ...
Nature

Whole-genome alignment with primates reveals DNA elements conserved in humans

We generated genome assemblies — models of genomes that are created by pasting together short lengths of sequenced DNA — for 187 primate species 3. We then aligned the whole human genome to assemblies ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Tiny Fern Has the World’s Largest Known Genome

The fern Tmesipteris oblanceolata, which scientists just discovered has the longest known genome of any organism. Ferns are known among scientists for having particularly large genomes. Pol Fernandez ...