title: Turtle origins: picking up speed.
abstract: Genomes for three species of turtles were recently reported in Nature Genetics and Genome Biology. The findings of Wang et al. (2013) and Abramyan et al. (2013) place the turtles as a sister group to birds and crocodiles and offer clues to the origins of this group's remarkable physiological traits.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. sgilber1@swarthmore.edu
authors.forename: Scott F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Corfe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D014426:Turtles / Q000235:genetics*