The power of community: another lesson from Arabidopsis

An interesting side note to the Arabidopsis story is how the members of the international collaboration worked together. In its first report, it was decided that the authorship of the paper reporting the genome sequence would be "The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative", rather than letting a controversy over author order cloud the publication.

Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. 2000. Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 408: 796 - 815.

 

“Arabidopsis: the best characterized weed on Earth” From: Genomics and Beyond, BBSRC life, UK http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/life/genomics/whatis.html Photo: Plant Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of York