First DNA extracted from modern, ancient and fossil tropical shells

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Feb 23, 2021, 10:56 am750 ptsHot
In Wonderland, Alice drank a potion to shrink herself. In nature, some animal species shrink to escape the attention of human hunters, a process that takes from decades to millennia. To begin to understand the genetics of shrinking, scientists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in…

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