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Octopus genome reveals cephalopod secrets
August 12, 2015
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University and the University of Chicago sequenced and annotated the first cephalopod genome, the California two-spot octopus. They found widespread rearrangements of genes and a dramatic expansion of a family of genes involved in neuronal development that was once thought to be unique to vertebrates.Full StorySource
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