Tag: informatics

  • Nation & World

    The evolution of flightless birds

    Based on an analysis of the genomes of more than a dozen flightless birds, including an extinct moa, a team led by Harvard researchers found that while different species show wide variety in the protein-coding portions of their genomes, they appear to turn to the same regulatory pathways when evolving flight loss.

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    Researchers display skeletons of flightless birds.