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Published online 8 February 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.565
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Please sequence my eel
Researchers campaign to get the electric fish genome sequenced.
A group of researchers have issued an impassioned plea for the genome of the electric eel to be sequenced.
In a paper in the Journal of Fish Biology, the group highlights all the benefits, to areas ranging from human health to nanotechnology, that would result from a full genome of this species1 (Electrophorus electricus), which isn’t actually a true eel but a fish.
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