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Malcom Ritter writes about a publication that's been in the news today:
``The new estimate is 20,000 to 25,000 genes, a drop from the 30,000 to 40,000 the same group of scientists published in 2001.
``By comparison, C. elegans, a worm that is a favorite research subject, has around 19,500 genes. Another lab favorite, a plant in the mustard family called Arabidopsis, has about 27,000.''
Full story:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041021/ap_on_sc/how_many_genes
Reference:
Jaillon, O. et al. 2004. Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome. Nature 431:931-945.
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