Publications by authors named "Hassan W J Kalombo"
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- * Researchers sequenced the genomes of five coelacanths, focusing on two species from Africa and one from Indonesia, revealing a genome size of about 2.74 Gbp with a high percentage of repetitive elements and low genetic diversity.
- * The study identified genes related to olfactory and limb formation that are similar between coelacanths and tetrapods, indicating that some traits essential for life on land may have evolved in their aquatic ancestors.
Coelacanths are known as "living fossils" because their morphology has changed very little from that in the fossil record. To elucidate why coelacanths have evolved so slowly is thus of primary importance in evolutionary biology. In the present study, we determined the entire sequence of the HOX cluster of the Tanzanian coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and compared it with that of the Indonesian coelacanth (L.
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