Ancestral Genome of African Great Apes and Humans Had Burst of Sequence Duplications

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 14:49 in Biology & Nature

The genome of the evolutionary ancestor of humans and present day apes underwent a burst of activity in duplicating segments of DNA. Mos tof these differences occurred just before the speciation of chimps, gorillas and humans.

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