vertebrates
gregladen | August 24, 2017Many years ago I was working on a project that, if I recall correctly, used the basic idea of the mouse-elephant curve to test out some statistical feature of reality or some such thing. Or the reverse. Either way, the point is I was using the mouse-elephant curve data.
What is the mouse-elephant curve? This:
You take all the mammals from mouse to elephant, and plot their metabolic rate or, if you like, brain volume, or any other metric, against body mass. You may or may not log an axis. The final result is supposed to be a straight line that approximates all the points. Then, you can…
dr. dolittle | August 23, 2012
In a prior post, we talked about the ambitious Genome 10K project. The goal of the project is to sequence the genome of 10,000 species of vertebrates (~1 species from every genus).
I was very excited to see the website recently updated in July to include numerous additional species for which the genome has been or is in the process of being sequenced. The new list even includes the genomic sequence of one of Darwin's Galapagos finches, the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) shown in the image below.
This is exciting news for a comparative physiologist!
Sources:
Genome 10K project
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