Long-Distance Gene Control Appeared Over 650 Million Years Ago, Study Suggests

May 7, 2025 - 14:15
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Long-Distance Gene Control Appeared Over 650 Million Years Ago, Study Suggests
Illustration of a DNA molecule. Image credit: Christoph Bock, Max Planck Institute for Informatics / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Distal regulation -- the ability to control genes from far away, over many tens of thousands of DNA letters -- appeared at the very dawn of animal evolution, between 650 and 700 million years ago -- around 150 million years earlier than previously thought.

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