The Scientist : NewsBlog Print: Lousy with chromosomes
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Lousy with chromosomes
Posted by Bob Grant
[Entry posted at 30th March 2009 10:48 PM GMT]
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Scientists have found an unprecedented evolutionary modification deep within the cells of the lowly human body louse (Pediculus humanus): the tiny blood sucker contains not one but 18 separate mitochondrial chromosomes.A female human body louse ...

 

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