Weird Mammal Genomes and Sex |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, March 02, 2005, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | Australia is the home of many weird animals, and it turns out that their genomes are very informative. Kangaroos diverged from humans 180 MY ago and platypus 210 MY, so they have diverged sufficiently from humans for stringent detection of homologies that can reveal coding regions and regulatory signals. Even more importantly, because marsupials and monotremes are mammals, they share with humans many mammal-specific developmental pathways and regulatory systems such as sex determination and X chromosome inactivation.
For more information, visit http://www.zoology.unimelb.edu.au/staff/graves.htm WALS |
| Author: | Jennifer Graves, Ph.D., Australian National University |
| Runtime: | 55 minutes |
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| CIT File ID: | 12486 |
| CIT Live ID: | 3444 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?12486 |