Spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca). (IMAGE)
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Like many threatened land turtle species, the spur-thighed tortoise had no complete genome. For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the genome of the spur-thighed tortoise, using the genome of another closely related native American tortoise as a reference.
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Ecology Department at UMH.
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