Researchers enter age of comparative genetics with large-scale study of vertebrate DNA

Arizona State University =>Nature ^ | 13-Aug-2003 | Skip Derra

[RightWhale]

Going beyond this article. This is worldwide news, and it was featured on radio news this morning. Our DNA is closer to rats than to pigs is what was said on either Clear Channel or ABC, whichever feed was used.

[Old Professer]

Please support it, then.

[Old Professer]

Never mind, I found it myself on Google from the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Posted on Thu, Aug. 14, 2003

Caught in the rat race? No wonder
By Faye Flam
Inquirer Staff Writer

Dogs may be man's best friend but rats are closer relatives, according to a new study that compares stretches of DNA for 13 different animals - including human beings.

We primates share common stretches of DNA with rats and mice that weren't found in carnivores such as dogs and cats or hoofed animals such as pigs and cows. The researchers, who published their paper in today's issue of the journal Nature, also studied DNA from two fellow primates - baboons and monkeys - as well as chickens, zebrafish and two species of pufferfish.

[RightWhale]

Please support it, then.

It's what they said. It doesn't seem surprising to me. Should it be?

[Old Professer]

It was only that what you said wasn't in the article posted; it's always better when sources are cited.

[RightWhale]

Good, you found something in writing. I was just listening to the radio.

[Condorman]

I get one in 16, unless there are "words" that can't occur.

I'm not sure that's correct either. We have not accounted for deletions, duplications, etc. A mutation can be more than just changing a single letter.

[Aric2000]

Placemarker

[Junior]

Ratboy placemarker.

[PatrickHenry]

Link to official website of Willard.

[John Locke]

The supermarket tabloids say Chelsea's pregnant ..

... with Batboy's child!

[js1138]

after the outage placemarker