22 November 2022 Image Sequencing project to unleash the huge potential of euglenoids An ambitious plan to sequence the genomes of all known species of euglenoids over the next decade has been launched today.
09 December 2021 Image New bioinformatics tool spots hybrid fish that threaten the survival of natural tilapia populations in aquaculture A new genomics marker tool has been shown to accurately identify tilapia species and tell apart their hybrids, providing a novel resource to help develop aquaculture and empower conservation in Tanzania, Africa.
15 September 2021 Image Pole to Pole: breaking point for ocean’s microbial biodiversity most likely to affect UK As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity 'breakpoint’ boundaries in the oceans – according to research from the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute.
14 January 2021 Image Genetic rewiring behind spectacular evolutionary explosion in East Africa Genetic rewiring could have driven an evolutionary explosion in the shapes, sizes and adaptations of cichlid fish, in East Africa’s answer to Darwin’s Galapagos finches.
02 November 2020 Image Invasive species threat to newly discovered native tilapia biodiversity Aquaculture is becoming more common - and more important - but the potential impact of fish farms on native biodiversity and ecosystems is only just surfacing.
28 October 2020 Image Liberators of knowledge: COPO launches for Darwin Tree of Life A big data broker for life science, Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) is now available for users on the ambitious Darwin Tree of Life Project, which aims to sequence the DNA of more than 60,000 species from across the British Isles.
28 July 2020 Image DNA deck shuffled in rapid cichlid evolution Earlham Institute scientists show large scale rearrangements in DNA structure could help explain the explosion of evolution in East African cichlid fish.
