Fantastic Beasts and How To Sequence Them: Ecological Genomics for Obscure Model Organisms.

Fantastic beasts and how to sequence them: genomic approaches for obscure model organisms

Fantastic species and where to find them

Fantastic beasts are not only found in the imaginary worlds of authors like J.K. Rowling. The oceans are full of them. Michael Gross rounds up some unusual suspects.

Poplar genome sequence: functional genomics in an ecologically dominant plant species.

In addition to their value for wood products, members of the genus Populus (poplars) provide a range of ecological services, including carbon sequestration, bioremediation, nutrient cycling, biofiltration and diverse habitats. They are also widely used model organisms for tree molecular biology and biotechnology. The sequencing of the poplar genome to an approximately 6x depth adds to a long li...

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Genes carry instructions to make protein that affect body's cells and their physical activity. They also play an important role in the occurrence of various characteristics in the body. Recently, scientists in the new field of science known as genomics have studied the genetic instructions. Genomics deals with the discovery of all the sequences in the entire genome of organisms and is used to s...

Harnessing genomics for evolutionary insights.

Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies can generate unprecedented amounts of genomic data, even for non-model organisms. Here we describe how these new technologies have facilitated recent key advances in ecology and evolutionary biology, and highlight several outstanding ecological and evolutionary questions that are distinctly suited to the innovations they provide. Importantly, using th...