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Mountain pine beetle genome decoded
2013-03-27 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The genome of the mountain pine beetle -- the insect that has devastated British Columbia's lodgepole pine forests -- has been decoded by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. This is a first for the mountain pine beetle and only the second beetle genome ever sequenced. The first was the red flour beetle, a pest of stored grains. The genome is described in a study published Tuesday in the journal Genome Biology. "We know a lot about...
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