1,000 species get their genomes sequenced for the first time
A thousand reference genomes of the highest quality have now been produced for diverse eukaryotic species across the tree of life.
Driven by curiosity: Filling in the gaps of the protist puzzle
Dr Ore Francis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. One of three inaugural Excellence Fellows, Ore is exploring the proteins that are at the root of all life on Earth, answering questions about adaptation and evolution along the way.
Barcoding creatures and building confidence
Meet Leia Zhao, a research assistant working in the Evolutionary Genomics group in the Tree of Life Programme.
The Story of Dogs
Dogs, descended from wolves, were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, some 40,000 years ago. New research, using modern DNA sequencing, is unravelling the evolutionary history of our canine companions.
Marine medicines from the slimiest of worms
“They’re not cute or charismatic. They have toxic mucus. But I like nemerteans because no one is rooting for them – and we know so little about them.”
Eimeria: the chicken parasite costing farmers billions
By sequencing the genome of this single-celled coccidian parasite, scientists hope to develop better vaccines to protect poultry from a disease that causes severe diarrhoea and death.
Genomes within Genomes
Hiding in the genome of a newly-sequenced red colobus monkey, there was a second species - a parasite descended from malaria.
‘These lowly organised creatures’: Earthworm sample collecting at the Sanger Institute
Few organisms have, as Darwin himself wrote, played such an important role in the history of the world.
Fishing for answers in the brown trout genome
Brown trout are highly adaptable and its genetic make up may hold key answers to helping species survive climate change
