1.0Harvard Gazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazetteharvardgazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/author/harvardgazette/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="fGaO99iKDT"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/08/first-lizard-genome-sequenced%e2%80%a8/">First lizard genome sequenced
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