#genome

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This tiny has the largest of any organism on Earth https://phys.org/news/2024-05-tiny-fern-largest-genome-earth.html

A 160 Gbp fork fern genome shatters size record for eukaryotes https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)01111-8

"Coming in at more than 100 meters of unraveled DNA, the New Caledonian was found to contain more than 50 times more DNA than humans and has dethroned the Japanese species Paris japonica, which has held this record since 2010... Compared to other organisms, are incredibly diverse at the DNA level"

photo of tiny fern plants growing among moss

A frozen chunk of genome rewrites our understanding of bird
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-frozen-chunk-genome-rewrites-bird.html

A region of suppressed recombination misleads neoavian https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319506121

"This section, just 2% of the bird , convinced that most could be grouped into two major categories, with and as evolutionary cousins. The more accurate family tree identifies four main groups and identifies flamingos and doves as more distantly related."

Photo of a colorful pigeon on a tree branch

🇩🇰 "While the two major shifts in Danish Mesolithic and Neolithic material culture may have had different drivers and causes, the outcomes were ultimately the same: new people arrived and rapidly took over the territory. With this arrival, the local landscape was modified to fit the lifestyle and culture of the immigrants. This is the hallmark of the Anthropocene, observed here in high resolution in prehistoric Denmark."

Allentoft, M.E., Sikora, M., Fischer, A. et al. 100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark. Nature 625, 329–337 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06862-3 @science @archaeodons

International day is coming up on February 11 and we are celebrating some of our women. They share insights into their personal and professional journeys, offering advice to young aspiring scientists.

First up: group leader Ana Pombo. She wants to understand the rules that govern our . She hopes her research will help understand diseases such as and .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQD258JfyQM

More about Ana Pombo: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/ana-pombo-art-dna-folding