The cockroach genome is here!

DavidBrown

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Geneticists have decoded the genome of the American cockroach, no doubt the consensus favorite organism of everyone here at Zoochat. They have started playing with cockroach genes involved in immunity and reproduction to find ways to destroy them.

Fun fact from this story: the American cockroach can live for a week without its head.


In a Cockroach Genome, ‘Little Mighty’ Secrets
 
And termites are social cockroaches.

:p

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