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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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This fruit fly, or Drosophila melanogaster, was collected in Europe around 1933 and added to the entomological collection at Lund University. UW–Madison researchers are using its DNA — with more from ancestors collected in Europe as far back as the first decades of the 1800s — to round out the genetic history of one of the planet’s most thoroughly studied animals.

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Image by Marcus Stensmyr, Lund University.

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