This Week in Science: Jun 22, 2007

Jun 22, 2007

An international consortium of almost 30 organizations present a draft sequence of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary vector for yellow fever and dengue fever. Though five times the size of the genome of the malaria-carrying Anopheles gambia, much of it is conserved between the two.

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