July 01, 2009
It's the Incredible Shrinking Genome!

No, really:

So it seems that mammalian genomes have been purging themselves from mobile DNA elements just around the KT boundary, give or take a couple of million years. (Or rather: not taking in new elements).

Predictably, nobody's really sure why this is, or what it means.

Posted by scott at July 01, 2009 02:54 PM

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