Three teams led by Prof. Zhu Zuoyan and Professor Wang Yaping at the Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS; Professor Han Bin at the National Center of Gene Research, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS; and Professor Lin Haoran at Sun Yat-sen University have recently completed sequencing of the draft genome of the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus). This work, entitled “The Draft Genome of the Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idellus) Provides Insights into its Evolution and Vegetarian Adaptation”, was published by Nature Genetics on May 4, 2015.  

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