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OTTERLY DELIGHTED to be here with you today - please vote for me! I'd be FURRY HAPPY to be sequenced!
Lutra lutra
Hard to say - maybe around 12,000. Knowing the genome will help us find this out!
Ca. 2.5 Gb
This was so long ago, I don't remember who that ancestor was. My mommy says it was probably a little weasel-like animal that lived more than 80 million years ago.
I should be sequenced because...: Protecting otters, at the top of the food chain, helps us protect the whole freshwater system.
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We run the Cardiff University Otter Project – click here for more about out us!
Some of our just published research: we found that UK otters actually have different dialects – in the odour of their poo! Here is a link to our paper.