A new paper in PNAS finds evidence of another breed of, now lost, domesticated turkeys. Some description, speculation, and links to the paper itself and further coverage in wired.
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The Cost of the Turkey Genome
Just to give you a sense of how fast technology is advancing: Sequencing the maize genome took four years and 30 million dollars. Today Virginia Tech announced the University of Minnesota and themselves had received a $908,000 grant to sequence the Turkey genome in two years. I don’t know how big or complex the turkey [...]