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March 30, 2017  |  By Ligia Murray In Home postings, News

Zika mosquito genome mapped – at last

Mosquito up close
Scientists have ‘assembled’ the genome of A. aegypti as well as that of Culex quinquefasciatus, a mosquito that transmits West Nile virus, by stitching together genome sequences using a new method called ‘Hi-C’.

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