Genomics: an inordinate fondness for beetles.
Beetles are reckoned to make up about one quarter of animal species. Now, the first genome of a beetle--the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, a pest and developmental model system alike--has been sequenced.
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Florian
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Current Biology, 32 Jamestown Road, London NW1 7BY, United Kingdom. florian.maderspacher@current-biology.com
D000818:Animals; D016266:Food Parasitology; D049750:Genome, Insect; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends; D023421:Models, Animal; D014231:Tribolium / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology