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by Tabitha M Powledge

Climate for polar science

Email: Tabitha M Powledge - tam@nasw.org
News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030210-07 doi:10.1186/20030210-07

10 February 2003

The US National Academies of Science are urging the National Science Foundation to mount a big new comparative program of ecosystem-based genomic studies of several arctic and Antarctic organisms. The project's centerpiece is a proposed Polar Genome Science Initiative, according to "Frontiers in Polar Biology in the Genomic Era," a National Research Council (NRC) report released Friday. The study was requested jointly by NSF's Office of Polar Programs and its Biology Directorate.


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