Luana Lins, Washington State University (IMAGE)

Washington State University

Luana Lins, Washington State University

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Luana Lins and colleagues have sequenced the genome of the mangrove killifish, one of only two self-fertilizing vertebrates, and found it has a remarkable amount of genetic diversity for a fish that replicates mostly its own DNA.

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