Great highlight of the Cellerino and Hoffman (FLI) labs on sequencing of the longest lived vertebrate. 👏 Lots and lots of transposable elements... The piece also remarks their most important (and underestimated) trait: they start reproducing at 140yo! 😳 www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/s...
Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.
And still it gets no respect, no respect at all. "In Latin it’s called Somniosus microcephalus—“the sleepwalker with the tiny brain.” lithub.com/consider-the...
ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is making a funny face
...only then can natural selection act to positively select their genes. This is long after most mammals (including us) have died.
..is there link to the primary paper? (beyond paywall). Previous age dating was challenged by huge confidence intervals. Interested to see how they resolve this and how it shapes such statements of time of reproductive maturity.