Otter on bridge ©Martin Kincaid, Linford Lakes NR 29 July 2017

The Eurasian otter will have its genome sequenced © David Tipling / Getty   2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and as part of its celebration, the institute will be sequencing the genomes of 25 UK species.

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