Tsetse Fly Genome Could Help Combat Sleeping Sickness (10 of 15) (VIDEO)

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This is a video of a bloodfed female tsetse fly excreting excess water (diuresis). This image relates to a paper that appeared in Apr. 25, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by the International GlossinaGenome 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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