Jan 23, 2020
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An international team of scientists report in the journal Genome Biology results from a pilot project to kick-start the global sequencing initiative of thousands of arthropods. Comparative analyses across 76 species spanning 500 million years of evolution reveal dynamic genomic changes that point to key factors behind their success and open up many new areas of research. Dr. Stephen Richards launched the i5k pilot project at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center to sequence, assemble, and annotate the genomes of 28 diverse arthropod species carefully selected from 787 community nominations.