Study reveals single gene invented haemoglobin several times ANI | Updated: Dec 30, 2020 08:33 IST
Washington [US], December 30 (ANI): Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, a team of scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by their last common ancestor.
The findings of the study by scientists from CNRS, Universite de Paris and Sorbonne Universite, in association with others at the University of Saint Petersburg and the University of Rio de Janeiro, were published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.