Friday 27 November 2009

Maize/sweetcorn genetics

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A draft of the maize genome has been published.

Maize was first domesticated about 9,000 tears ago

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Genetics of lake malawi cichlids

The orange-blotch pattern of some cichlids is due to a mutation in the pax7 gene.

Monday 9 November 2009

Shark genetics

Genetic analyses of Great white sharks in Australia and california has shown they are  distant cousins.