image: The notum of an adult fly, presenting the typical pattern of small and large bristles (microchaetes and macrochaetes, respectively). Microchaetes are surrounded by a dashed line. For more information, please see Figure 1 in the manuscript. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Jan. 14, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Afek at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem." view more
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