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A matched set of frog sequences

A Correction to this article was published on 26 October 2016

A whole-genome duplication that occurred around 34 million years ago in the frog Xenopus laevis made generating a genome sequence for this valuable model organism a challenge. This obstacle has finally been overcome. See Article p.336

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Figure 1: Pathways to rediploidization.

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Burgess, S. A matched set of frog sequences. Nature 538, 320–321 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/538320a

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