US EditionMosquitoes Don't Keep Dna From Dinosaurs, They Keep Dna From Your Neighbors (and It's Much More Useful)
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Jurassic Park had promised us cloned dinosaurs from fossilized mosquito blood. The scientific reality is ultimately more useful, though less spectacular: modern mosquitoes, these creatures we unanimously hate, could well become our best allies to monitor biodiversity in real time. A team from the University of Florida comes [...]
By analyzing the blood consumed by mosquitoes in a protected area in central Florida, a team of biologists discovered that it can provide an almost complete overview of the vertebrates present in the area. Blood included traces of DNA from all the animals they had consumed, a finding that is not without recalling the narrative principle popularized by Jurassic Park films. These observations suggest that mosquitoes could be a more accessible alte…
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