Sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet and now we know why. Scientists have sequenced the two-toed sloth genome and found ‘jumping genes’ linked to their extremely slow metabolism 🦥
Read more here ⤵️
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/why-are-sloths-so-slow-its-in-their-dna/
The word on the street is, that someone might be organising a virtual biannual Diptera Comparative Genomics symposium to facilitate knowledge exchange and foster collaborations. Let me know, if you would you be interested in joining the community and possibly contribute to papers such the one below.
Wellcome Sanger Institute
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A big preprint from my group!
Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not...
Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A huge thanks to all my co-authors, especially Camila Mazzoni, who hosted me as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow where it all started, Pedro Galante and Helena Conceiçāo, who are retrocopy experts and were more than excited to do a deep dive into Xenarthran and sloth biology with me.
Por qué el ADN del perezoso de dos dedos cambió lo que se sabía sobre el metabolismo mamífero www.infobae.com/america/cien...
Paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
