Friday 18 September 2009

Pathogen that cause Irish potato famine genetically sequenced

Phytophthora infestans has genome estinated at 240 megabase.
Almost 18,000 genes were found.
They were lots of gypsy elements,1/3 of the genome assembly being such elements,one called `albatross' accounts for a lot of the genome
273 transpoons found

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