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The gar is a fish... is a bird... is a mammal?

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Teleosts have emerged as important model organisms, yet their ancestrally duplicated genomes sometimes complicate developmental genetic analyses and comparisons to humans. A new genome sequence of spotted gar, a fish related to teleosts but lacking a duplicated genome, now helps to bridge human and teleost biology.

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Figure 1: The convenient phylogenetic position and genome of spotted gar.

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Parichy, D. The gar is a fish... is a bird... is a mammal?. Nat Genet 48, 344–345 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3532

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