Genome of ancient sponge reveals origins of first animals, cancer

Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 04:49 in Biology & Nature

The sponge, which was not recognised as an animal until the 19th century, is now the simplest and most ancient group of animals to have their genome sequenced...

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