Credit: Christoffer Bostrom, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Using a sample of the eelgrass Zostera marina taken from the Archipelago Sea off Finland, a European team including researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute sequenced its genome and compared it with a freshwater relative. Eelgrass is the first marine angiosperm to have its genome sequenced. The report was published January 27, 2016 in Nature.