The awesome opossum gets sequenced

Monodelphis domestica bags the first marsupial genome.

Such a small creature for so great an honour: the grey short-tailed opossum is the first marsupial to have its genome fully sequenced, joining a menagerie of other mammals including the mouse, rat, chimpanzee and, of course, human.

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The awesome opossum gets sequenced

Monodelphis domestica bags the first marsupial genome.

Such a small creature for so great an honour: the grey short-tailed opossum is the first marsupial to have its genome fully sequenced, joining a menagerie of other mammals including the mouse, rat, chimpanzee and, of course, human.

Read the story here.

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