Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome — and it's 30 times bigger than the human genome. The genome ...

Particularly “in the animal genome community, there’s a lot of skepticism still,” he notes. Part of that may be the lingering memory of early, bold claims for HGT in animals that turned out to be the ...

With World Pangolin Day being celebrated on February 15, it is befitting that new research presenting high quality genomic ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

The Plant and Animal Genomics conference recently held in San Diego showcased the ways that rapidly advancing technologies can be used in the crop and livestock sectors ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and Seacoast Science Center join forces to unlock the secrets of marine mammal DNA and advance ...

“Now here's an animal that has played with that constraint. So, studying something that deviates from the rules can actually tell you something more about the rules,” she explained. With the brittle ...

Other than songbirds, only a few animals, such as whales and humans, can learn vocalizations. Researchers can now study this songbird's genome to better understand the development of learned ...

More information: Ruiqi Li et al, Photosymbiosis shaped animal genome architecture and gene evolution as revealed in giant clams, Communications Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-07423-8 ...