Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Snake genome reveals burrowing past and re-adaptation to surface life
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-snake-genome-reveals-burrowing-re-adaptation.html
Large-scale #snake #genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development https://phys.org/news/2023-06-snake-genome-reveals-burrowing-re-adaptation.html
"The authors suggest that early #snakes underwent a prolonged low-light #burrowing period before returning to well-lit surface habitats. In this scenario, the structure and function of the snake #eyes would have re-adapted to surface light by upregulating the #genes that had been conserved."
Snake genome reveals burrowing past and re-adaptation to surface life
Chromosome-level assembly of 14 snakes in a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, has created a high-resolution genomic reference for the study of snake evolution. In a paper, "Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development," published in Cell, the research team details a wide array of discoveries already made by their sequencing data.