San Diego zoo global biobanking advances wildlife conservation and human medicine worldwide

(San Diego Zoo Global) In a study that has unprecedented implications to advance both medicine and biodiversity conservation, researchers have sequenced 131 new placental mammal genomes, bringing the worldwide total to more than 250. The results of the mammal genome project, published in the Nov. 12 issue of the journal Nature, catalog and characterize whole branches of Earth's biodiversity, spanning approximately 110 million years of mammal evolution--the largest and most diverse mammalian comparative genomics project to date.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news