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| | Bread mold yields a genome first for filamentous fungi |
 | | ARLINGTON, Va.--With more than 10,000 genes amid DNA strands of nearly 40 million base pairs, the first genome of a filamentous fungus has been sequenced through the cooperative efforts of a community of more than 70 scientists, culminating a two-year, $5 million effort supported by the National Science Foundation. |
 | | At the center of this latest genetics achievement is a filamentous fungus, a bread mold, a life form easily overlooked in the shadow of the Human Genome Project. |
 | | To biologists, however, it is Neurospora crassa, an organism of historic and enduring value as a model organism. |
| www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-04/nsf-bmy042503.php (824 words) |
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