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Volume 155, Number 24 (June 12, 1999)

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DNA may reveal a fly's favorite eatery

A genetic analysis of the guts of sand flies may reveal from what animal they pick up parasites that cause human illnesses.

References:

Herrera, S. . . . C. Orrego. 1999. DNA tags from the blood meal to identify animal host(s) employed by sand flies of the genus Lutzomyia, vectors of human leishmaniasis. Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. May. Chicago.

Sources:

Christian Orrego
San Francisco State University
Department of Biology
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 24, June 12, 1999, p. 377. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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