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Scientists unravel the ancient enigma of tuatara
Topic Started: Aug 29 2016, 03:26 PM (63 Views)
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Scientists unravel the ancient enigma of tuatara

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New Zealand's tuatara has proven itself a treasure trove of genetic surprises - among them its distant DNA link to humans.
A team of researchers led by Otago University geneticist Professor Neil Gemmell is wrapping up a five-year study of the rare and quirky species.
Tuatara, found only in New Zealand on predator-free islands, are the last survivors of an order of reptiles that thrived in the age of dinosaurs, making them intensely important to biologists everywhere.
Sequencing the tuatara's entire genome - drawn from a big adult male's blood sample - had revealed some fascinating twists that even Gemmell and his colleagues weren't expecting.

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