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Seventy-five years after the discovery of the first coelacanth the genome sequence of the Latimeria chalumnae has been completed. The Latimeria genome will be an invaluable resource for inferring evolutionary processes that happened during the transition from water to land. The first analyses of genes and regulatory elements disclosed changes, which permitted vertebrate adaptation to land. A phylogenomic analysis again strongly supports that the lungfishes are the closest living relatives of the tetrapods.
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Manfred Schartl Jahrgang 1953. 1973–1977 Biologe- und Chemiestudium an der Universität Gießen. 1980 Promotion in Genetik bei Prof. Dr. F. Anders. 1980–1984 Postdoc in Gießen und am National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA. 1985–1991 Nachwuchsgruppenleiter am Genzentrum des Max-Planck-Instituts für Biochemie in Martinsried. Seit 1991 Ordinarius für Physiologische Chemie am Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg.
Axel Meyer Jahrgang 1960. 1979–1982 Biologiestudium an den Universitäten Marburg, Kiel und Miami. 1985 Masters Degree in Zoology, University of California in Berkeley. 1986–1987 Studium an der Harvard University. 1988 Promotion an der University of California in Berkeley. 1988–1990 Alfred P. Sloan Postdoc bei Prof. A. C. Wilson, Fachbereich Biochemie in Berkeley. 1990–1997 Assistant und Associate Professor im Department of Ecology and Evolution an der State University of New York, in Stony Brook. Seit 1997 Professor für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie an der Universität Konstanz.
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Schartl, M., Meyer, A. Die Entschlüsselung des Genoms des Quastenflossers. Biospektrum 19, 515–519 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-013-0349-2
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