Are the Bugs Smashed on the Grill the Same?

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Are the Bugs Smashed on the Grill the Same?

Jul 31, 2009

On his blog, Keith Robison points out a dataset he found in the NCBI Short Read Archive that got him laughing. The study, from Penn State's Anton Nekrutenko, looked into "windshield genomics," or asked these questions:

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