'No one has ever really known how the elephant got its trunk, or how the leopard got its spots. This project will lay the foundation for work that will answer those questions and many others,' says Dr David HausslerFrom The Independent:
Nobel laureate to reveal secrets of evolution via massive gene-mapping project.
An ambitious plan to map the genomes of 10,000 species of vertebrates – animals with backbones – has been announced by scientists.
Unravelling the DNA sequences of the many species of vertebrates will help science to explain how the leopard got its spots, how the elephant came by its trunk and how the bat learned to fly, the researchers said.
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