Discoveries
There's an impostor hiding in the genes of the fruit fly. Researchers from the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have found a huge chunk of foreign genetic code from a parasite stuck in the middle of the fly's genes. Jack Werren, the lead author of the study and a specialist on the parasite called Wolbachia, says ... (Full article: 610 words)
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