Sequencing the Daphnia genome

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Uploaded by on Feb 4, 2011

Notre Dame biologist Michael Pfrender is the coauthor of a paper in the prestigious journal Science describing the sequencing of the species Daphnia pulex, often referred to as the water flea. Daphnia, a small freshwater crustacean, is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced. It contains more than 31,000 genes, as compared to 23,000 genes of humans.

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  • Can these be parasitic to humans?

  • Daphnia pulex looks pretty alien, may be a an ET engineering.

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