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| | AAAS - AAAS News Release |
 | | The rice strain, indica, sequenced by Jun Yu of the Beijing Genomics Institute and the University of Washington Genome Center, with colleagues at 11 Chinese institutions, is a major subspecies in China and other Asian-Pacific regions. |
 | | To sequence the indica genome, Yu and colleagues used the same "whole genome shotgun method," previously used to sequence the fruit fly genome, and by private researchers sequencing the human genome. |
 | | This asymmetry could suggest that the rice genome is a "superset" of the Arabidopsis genome, the result of a massive gene duplication event, and may shed light on how monocots and dicots evolved and diverged some 200 million years ago. |
| www.aaas.org /news/releases/2002/indica.shtml (691 words) |
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