Image: Genome sequencing of sea squirt (Ciona intestinalis)
Caption: Here, on the Joint Genome Institute's website, the sea squirt genome is compared with those of a human, worm, fly, yeast, and that of Arabidopsis. The sea squirt serves as a model organism to study how more complex life evolved.
Credit: DOE Joint Genome Institute © 2003
Website: http://genome.jgi-psf.org/ciona4/ciona4.home.html
http://genome.jgi-psf.org/cgi-bin/browserLoad/3f65d2202d62f4194cba41c5
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