In the last few years, the first conifer genomes at a staggering size of 20 24 gigabases and the genomes of several hardwood trees have been sequenced and analyzed.
To elucidate the genetic basis of drug resistance, virulence, and pathogenesis, genomes of hundreds of S. aureus isolates have been sequenced and analyzed, showing that the characteristics of S. aureus are different from strain to strain, even in different strains isolated from the same origin4,5,6,7,8.
The second mammalian genome--humans took first place--has been sequenced and analyzed, and a third is not far behind.
However, new stringent methodologies have been employed that have reduced the modern human contamination that plagued previous studies to very low levels, and more than four billion nucleotides of Neanderthal DNA have now been sequenced and analyzed (Green et al. 2010).
Over the last ten years, high throughput sequencing has made ciliate genomic research available on a large scale, and the genomes of several species have been sequenced and analyzed, e.g. Tetrahymena thermophila (Eisen et al., 2006), Paramecium tetraurelia (Auryet al., 2006), Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Coyne et al., 2011) and Oxytricha trifallax (Swart et al., 2013).
To understand clearly the genetic characteristics and the nature of HAdV-D53, the entire genome has been sequenced and analyzed.
