Researchers Sequence Genome of Iconic Darwin Finch Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches first described by Charles Darwin. The genome of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) is among the first of a planned 100 genomes of vertebrate species to be sequenced and released by an international collaboration between the Genome 10K project and BGI.This finch genome, the first of the BGI-Genome 10K collaboration to be made available through the UCSC Genome Browser, represents both a scientific and a symbolic advancement, according to Duke Univ. Associate Prof. Erich Jarvis, who studies the neurobiology of vocal learning in songbirds.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/08/researchers-sequence-genome-iconic-darwin-finch

Researchers Sequence Genome of Iconic Darwin Finch

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches first described by Charles Darwin. The genome of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) is among the first of a planned 100 genomes of vertebrate species to be sequenced and released by an international collaboration between the Genome 10K project and BGI.

This finch genome, the first of the BGI-Genome 10K collaboration to be made available through the UCSC Genome Browser, represents both a scientific and a symbolic advancement, according to Duke Univ. Associate Prof. Erich Jarvis, who studies the neurobiology of vocal learning in songbirds.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/08/researchers-sequence-genome-iconic-darwin-finch