Pond protist found to use a genetic code that breaks a presumed rule
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Scientists studying the previously unknown protist Oligohymenophorea sp. PL0344 found that two DNA signals normally used to stop protein production instead encode two different amino acids. The organism came from an Oxford University pond, and the discovery was published in PLOS Genetics in October 2023.
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