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Decoding the zebrafish genome

A large-scale collaborative effort now provides a comprehensive annotation of functional non-coding elements in the zebrafish genome. This work serves as an essential foundation for future studies to understand how gene regulatory circuits control embryonic development.

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Fig. 1: Multiomic profiling of zebrafish embryos.

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Lawson, N.D. Decoding the zebrafish genome. Nat Genet 54, 917–919 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01080-5

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