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WUSTL researchers spearhead key genome initiative

12-13-2007 · EurekAlert!

The complete genome of a moss has been sequenced, providing scientists an important evolutionary link between single-celled algae and flowering plants, suggests a study published in the journal Science. A major landmark in understanding how plants originated, the moss genome sequencing offers insight into the conquest of land by plants and sheds light on the evolution of the plant kingdom, says study co-author Ralph S. Quatrano, a biology professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

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