What do leeches, limpets and worms have in common?

A multinational team, led by researchers at UC Berkeley, published the genomes of the leech and two relatives, the limpet and the marine worm, or polychaete, in the Dec. 20 issue of the journal Nature. The publication comes after five years of efforts analyzing mountains of information provided by the initial sequencing effort to learn what leeches have in common with other animals another and with humans. NHGRI helped fund this research.
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