Scientists find hidden "highways" guiding animal evolution
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An analysis of more than 5,800 chromosome-scale animal genomes across 4,454 species from 19 phyla revealed that animal chromosomes do not evolve randomly but follow restricted, irreversible "evolutionary highways" established hundreds of millions of years ago, tracing genome reorganization across more than 600 million years of animal history.
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