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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