Unveiling the lizard genome: explaining vertebrate evolution

Publication of the genome of the North American green anole lizard has filled a yawning genome-sequence gap in the animal lineage. The paper, which appears today in Nature, is the first to sequence the genome of a non-avian reptile. “This fills out a clade that has been completely ignored before,” says lead author Jessica Alföldi of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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