Student uses genome annotation to help study crocodiles, alligators, gharials

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 10:01 in Biology & Nature

For the last year and a half, University of Delaware doctoral student Colin Kern has been annotating the genome of the American alligator, the salt water crocodile and the Indian gharial to help researchers from multiple institutions determine the ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs, which include crocodilians, dinosaurs and birds.

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