The manuscript describing the genome of the tuatara can now be accessed on bioRxiv.
Payton Smith = First Prize!
Freshman undergraduate researcher Payton Smith, an Interns 2 Scholars recipient, was also awarded first place in the Research Category for poster presentations within the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences at the NAU-wide Undergraduate Symposium!
Her poster is entitled: “Phylogenomics of Squamates using Many High-Confidence Single Copy Orthologs”. We are so proud of her!
Whale genomes paper now available!
Our paper “Return to the Sea, Get Huge, Beat Cancer” has been published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. The paper is open access and can be read by anybody.
You can read the press release from NAU here.
Image of Salt, an adult female humpback whale, taken by the Center for Coastal Studies under NOAA research permit 16325.
Humpback whale genome!
The humpback whale genome paper, which includes comparative analysis with 10 cetacean and 28 placental mammalian genomes, with a focus on the evolution of cancer suppression, has been accepted by Molecular Biology and Evolution!
We present the first published genome sequence for one of Earth’s most loved giants. The genome sequence can be downloaded from NCBI.