Showing posts with label silkworm genettics genomes snps genes genome size. Show all posts
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Monday, 14 September 2009

silkworm genetics

Researchers have sequenced the genomes of 40 types of silkworms,29 domesticated and 11 wild types of silk worms.

Genome size is 432mb

Researchers identified 16 million SNPs,as well as 354 genes possibly associated with domestication.