Cracking the Genetic Code of a Frog
Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
Unless your father was a prince with a shady past , you probably haven't thought much about how related you are to a frog lately. But it turns out that about 80 percent of the genes known to cause diseases in humans have counterparts in the genome of Xenopus tropicalis --the western clawed frog native to sub-Saharan Africa.