Expanding the Ranks of Vertebrate Genomes

Filling in evolutionary blanks is just the first feat for the rat and chicken genomes.

When the brown Norway rat 1 and the red jungle fowl²joined the ranks of the sequenced in 2004, two unsung heroes of experimental biology finally got their due. Although the projects met with some resistance at the start, a genetics toolbox has been assembled that is worthy of these animals' research status, and scientists are starting to succeed in applying its contents.


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