The international research team, led by investigators at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, compared the newly sequenced genome to the much smaller genome of the model organism A. thaliana. Their findings suggest that the pared down version of the genome found in A. thaliana reflects a spate of small deletions — many affecting transposons and non-protein coding sequences. The study appeared in the early, online version of Nature Genetics yesterday.
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