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April 29, 2010

Xenopus frog genome project on CBC

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the western clawed frog, an important model animal in research on embryos and human genetic diseases.
Although biologists have uncovered the DNA sequences of more than 175 organisms so far — from corn to the spotted green puffer fish — this is the first genome of an amphibian to be sequenced.
Read more on CBC News.

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