Scientists analysed thousands of animal genomes and found hidden “evolutionary highways” stretching back 600 million years
- Image AI generatedScientists have traced hidden pathways through animal evolution by comparing thousands of genomes and following pieces of chromosomes that have survived for hundreds of millions of years.
- The study examined 5,821 chromosome-scale genomes from 4,454 species across 19 animal phyla, using 29 ancient linkage groups as markers of chromosome history.
- Every one of the 406 possible pairings between those ancestral groups appeared somewhere in the dataset, showing how often chromosomes have been joined and reshaped during animal evolution.
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- Image AI generatedScientists have traced hidden pathways through animal evolution by comparing thousands of genomes and following pieces of chromosomes that have survived for hundreds of millions of years.
- The study examined 5,821 chromosome-scale genomes from 4,454 species across 19 animal phyla, using 29 ancient linkage groups as markers of chromosome history.
- Every one of the 406 possible pairings between those ancestral groups appeared somewhere in the dataset, showing how often chromosomes have been joined and reshaped during animal evolution.
Sources: Times of India