Of lice and man: Researchers sequence human body louse genome
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 05:11
in Biology & Nature
Like an unwelcome houseguest or itinerant squatter, the human body louse shows up when times are bad and always makes them worse. Now a multi-institutional team reports that it has sequenced the body louse genome, an achievement that will yield new insights into louse - and human - biology and evolution...