Tsetse Fly Genome Could Help Combat Sleeping Sickness (12 of 15) (VIDEO)

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This is a video of a pregnant female tsetse fly preening. This image relates to a paper that appeared in Apr. 25, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by the International Glossina Genome Initiative, was titled, "Genome Sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Trypanosomiasis."

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Video by Geoffrey M. Attardo

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