Posted on 11/18/2023 1:33:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Alejandra Perotti, an invertebrate biologist at the University of Reading who specializes in lice, says the work is intriguing, but she wants to see the researchers expand and diversify their sample. For instance, only a single louse in the study came from Africa and relatively few came from South America, she notes, limiting the authors’ ability to infer how lice from around world relate to one another. She adds that sequencing the insects’ whole genomes—a project Perotti herself is working on—will offer scientists even more reliable means for pinning down the relatedness between lice groups, as well as matching those to human populations, past and present.
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Europeans brought Euopean oice. Native Americans gad live that had evolved separately so both types can be distinguished from each other
Crowlan ferlie ping!
(ancient bug dna)
Why, exactly, do we need to know this?
Native Americans gad live that had evolved separately so both types can be distinguished from each other"
Not to mention the Vice Presidency of the United States, and two are running for President.
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