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Team analyzes genomes of 12 fly species
11-09-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)In work that reveals important clues in the evolution of genes, a consortium of MIT scientists and colleagues has analyzed the genomes of twelve species of the fruit fly in one of the first large-scale comparisons of multiple animal genomes.
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