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Oldest vertebrate genome sequenced

Adam Khor · 2013-06-26 17:25:00

Its from a 700.000 year old horse: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829234.700-oldest-animal-genome-is-sequenced-from-horse-bone.html

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26-06-2013 6:25pm

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Adam Khor

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Its from a 700.000 year old horse:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829234.700-oldest-animal-genome-is-sequenced-from-horse-bone.html

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#2 30-06-2013 9:56am
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Cool, we could meet the ancestors

The genome of a 700,000-year-old fossil has been sequenced, suggesting we could do the same with other long-extinct creatures – including early hominins like Homo erectus.

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