Researchers at the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center partnered with the University of Minnesota Genomics Center and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute to analyze data and ultimately assemble and annotate the zebra mussel genome. And, in doing so, fill in a large gap in the tree of life as zebra mussels are more than 400 million years diverged from the nearest sequenced relative—roughly the same amount of evolutionary divergence as that between humans and manta rays.
Researchers at the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center partnered with the University of Minnesota Genomics Center and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute to analyze data and ultimately assemble and annotate the zebra mussel genome. And, in doing so, fill in a large gap in the tree of life as zebra mussels are more than 400 million years diverged from the nearest sequenced relative—roughly the same amount of evolutionary divergence as that between humans and manta rays.