{"id":122126,"date":"2021-04-30T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T00:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/first-major-discoveries-reported-from-project-to-read-complete-genetic-sequences-of-all-70000-vertebrate-species"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T00:22:42","slug":"first-major-discoveries-reported-from-project-to-read-complete-genetic-sequences-of-all-70000-vertebrate-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/first-major-discoveries-reported-from-project-to-read-complete-genetic-sequences-of-all-70000-vertebrate-species","title":{"rendered":"First Major Discoveries Reported From Project to Read Complete Genetic Sequences of All 70,000 Vertebrate Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-major-discoveries-reported-from-project-to-read-complete-genetic-sequences-of-all-70000-vertebrate-species3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species reaches its first milestone by publishing new methods and the first 25 high-quality genomes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the most audacious projects in biology today \u2013 reading the entire genome of every bird, mammal, lizard, fish, and all other creatures with backbones.<\/p>\n<p>And now comes the first major payoff from the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP): near complete, high-quality genomes of 25 species, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Erich Jarvis with scores of coauthors report April 28, 2021, in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>. These species include the greater horseshoe bat, the Canada lynx, the platypus, and the k\u0101k\u0101p\u014d parrot \u2013 one of the first high-quality genomes of an endangered vertebrate species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species reaches its first milestone by publishing new methods and the first 25 high-quality genomes. It\u2019s one of the most audacious projects in biology today \u2013 reading the entire genome of every bird, mammal, lizard, fish, and all other creatures with backbones. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}