Thank you from the Iconic Zone winner – Catshark!
I am absolutely thrilled to the gills about winning a place for the lesser spotted catshark in the 25 genomes competition. What a ride it has been! I especially want to thank all of the students and members of the public for participating (and for voting). There were a lot of excellent questions! Some of them were really tricky and I have to admit I needed to do some research myself to answer them more than once. Thankfully I was sharing the chatroom with some other amazing Iconic species champions who provided excellent, informative and entertaining answers while I consulted my textbooks! I wish we could all have been winners this time but I am certain that after these 25 genomes are sequenced more will be right around the corner and there are very good reasons to do every other species submitted in this competition. We have a lot of … Continue reading