Notes from the Biomass

Connotea, a service provided by Nature lets you store your references and share them with others for collaborations. Note to self: Should give it a try in the next try external project.

BoingBoing just announced that papers generated via SCIgen were in fact presented at the WMSCI 2005 conference. Kind of. I found the paper generator pretty original to begin with and it has been in the list of noteworthy links for some time.

Research groups from Texas A&M and the University of Illinois studied the chromosomal rearrangements in the evolution of mammals. Their study appeared in Science.

Rates of chromosome evolution within mammalian orders were found to increase since the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Nearly 20% of chromosome breakpoint regions were reused during mammalian evolution; these reuse sites are also enriched for centromeres.

Nice paper ... and 124 pages supplementary material.