Korean-Chinese consortium sequences minke whale genome

The genome of which 2.44 GB were sequenced contains some 20.000 genes and is hoped to permit insight into, e. g., stress response to oxygen deprivation, increase in reactive oxygen species and high salt levels.

Hyung-Soon YIM et al., Nature Genetics (2013) doi:10.1038/ng.2835

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