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Hey, I'm Gonna Get You, Too

May 22, 2007

Maryland's TIGR, in conjunction with an international team of researchers, have published in Science a draft sequence of the genome of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries yellow fever and dengue fever. Of note is a short news piece in Scientific American that speaks to the size and complexity of this critter's genome.

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