Researchers track origin of one of nature’s biggest killers

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 09:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A mosquito species that is one of the world’s leading killers of humans arose more than 7 million years ago on islands in the Indian Ocean, some of which had no mammals of any kind, according to a genetic analysis by Yale researchers published August 17 in the journal Molecular Ecology. Disease-carrying mosquitoes kill more […]

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