Royal Society Open Science is a new open access journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. It belongs to the publishing group of the Royal Society, a self-governing fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished...
A team led by Miguel Pérez-Enciso, ICREA researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and at the Centre for Research in Agrigenomics (CRAG), has obtained the first partial genome sequence of an ancient pig. Researchers from the CNAG and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Pompeu...
The 2010 Malaspina Expedition is an interdisciplinary research project with the overall goals to assess the impact of global change on the oceans and explore their biodiversity. Led by Carlos Duarte from the CSIC, the expedition collected more than 2,000 samples of microorganisms from different...
A team led by Oregon Health & Science University has sequenced and annotated the genome of the only ape whose DNA had yet to be sequenced — the gibbon, an endangered small ape that inhabits the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, ICREA Research Professor and leader of the...
The RD-Connect project is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) and is led by Hanns Lochmüller from the University of...
A team of scientists from around the world has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset – the first sequence of a New World Monkey – providing new information about the marmoset’s unique rapid reproductive system, physiology and growth shedding new light on primate biology and evolution...

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