The role of feline leukaemia virus in naturally-occurring leukaemias

No abstract available

The genome of the sea squirt Ciona Intestinalis: The seeds of vertebrate innovation

The first chordates appeared over a half a billion years ago, providing the ancestral stock from which modern vertebrates emerged. To shed some light on the chordate origins, we have sequenced the genome of Ciona intestinalis, a sea squirt whose lineage split from that of vertebrates in the mid Cambrian. Ciona has long been a popular model system for the study of development, featuring world-wide and year-round availability, easily visualized cells and morphogenetic processes, simple methods for transient transgene expression, and a growing genomic infrastructure including extensive EST and cDNA collections. A comparison of the assembled Ciona genome sequence and gene complement with available invertebrate and vertebrate sequences provides insight into the origins and development of a chordate and vertebrate systems including the nervous systems, muscular, immune and endocrine systems, as well as the evolution of the chordate body plan. The Ciona genome provides a foundation for a genome-scale analyses of regulatory networks through chordate development

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development, physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome. We also present an initial analysis of the data, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence