Thursday, March 21, 2024

Decoding the Easter Bunny -- an eastern Finnish brown hare to represent the standard for the species' genome

Biologists have published a chromosomally assembled reference genome for the European brown hare. The genome consists of 2.9 billion base pairs, which form 23 autosomal chromosomes, and X and Y sex chromosomes. The timing of the genome release is very appropriate as the brown hare also represents the original Easter Bunny familiar from European folklore.

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