Genomes from 25 museum specimens of Drosophila melanogaster (some more than 200 years old) reveal that small populations occupying northern Europe gave way to well-connected fly populations across the continent (IMAGE)

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Genomes from 25 museum specimens of Drosophila melanogaster (some more than 200 years old) reveal that small populations occupying northern Europe gave way to well-connected fly populations across the continent

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A photograph of one of the 25 museum specimens from which genomes were sequenced and analyzed by the population genomic study of Shpak et al. (2023). While some samples dated from the early 1800s, the depicted specimen was collected in 1933 on the campus of Lund University
(Sweden).

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Christoffer Fägerström (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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