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Darwinian genomics and diversity in the tree of life.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Jan 2022
Stephan Taylorlyn, Burgess Shawn M, Cheng Hans, Danko Charles G, Gill Clare A, Jarvis Erich D, Koepfli Klaus-Peter, Koltes James E, Lyons Eric, Ronald Pamela, Ryder Oliver A, Schriml Lynn M, Soltis Pamela, VandeWoude Sue, Zhou Huaijun, Ostrander Elaine A, Karlsson Elinor K
Abstract excerpt
Genomics encompasses the entire tree of life, both extinct and extant, and the evolutionary processes that shape this diversity. To date, genomic research has focused on humans, a small number of agricultural species, and established laboratory models. Fewer than 18,000 of ∼2,000,000 eukaryotic species (<1%) have a representative genome sequence in GenBank, and only a fraction of these have ancillary information...
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