Credit: Image courtesy of Ivanova, N., et al. “Stop codon reassignments in the wild,” Science 344(6186), 909–913 (2014). Reprinted with permission from
AAAS Researchers have found that some wild organisms interpret a genetic sequence typically read as “stop” to mean something else. This map shows the locations of samples of wild microbial DNA collected from around the globe and the human body for which recoded stop sequences (named amber, ochre, and opal) have been identified.