JANUARY 2013
A team of Chinese scientists has managed to construct the history of the panda, from its origins to the current day, by resequencing the genomes of nearly three dozen wild giant pandas. While pandas today thrive on a diet of bamboo, their ancestors were omnivores or carnivores, with bamboo becoming the primary source of culinary sustenance for the creatures about three million years ago.
Publications
- The Autism Sequencing Consortium: Large-Scale, High-Throughput Sequencing in Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Characterisation and Validation of Insertions and Deletions in 173 Patient Exomes
- Steps to Ensure Accuracy in Genotype and SNP Calling From Illumina Sequencing Data
- High-Throughput Sequence Analysis Reveals Structural Diversity and Improved Potency Among RNA Inhibitors of HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies LRIT3 Mutations as a Cause of Autosomal-Recessive Complete Congenital Stationary Night Blindness
News
- Scientists Sequence a Person’s Entire Genome With Just a Single Cell
- Genome Sequencing May Help Identify New Targets to Treat Pneumocystis Pneumonia
- Christmas Tree DNA: Complex Conifer Genome Begins to Yield to Research Efforts
- Breast Milk Contains More Than 700 Species of Bacteria, Spanish Researchers Find
