"Ew I'm so gross, but everyone loves me... ♥"These student were working on a project focused on testing the DNA of over 200 things. They found interesting things: mislabeled dairy and caviar, duster feather from an ostrich, surprisingly pure-beef hot dogs, etc. But they also discovered a new species of cockroach.
What looked like a regular cockroach didn't get a DNA match from the Barcode of Life Database and GenBank. Professor Mark Stoeckle agreed. "Closely-related species don't differ by more than one percent," he said, "while this cockroach is four-percent different. This suggests it is a new species of cockroach."
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Why do I keep writing about cockroaches?...
What looked like a regular cockroach didn't get a DNA match from the Barcode of Life Database and GenBank. Professor Mark Stoeckle agreed. "Closely-related species don't differ by more than one percent," he said, "while this cockroach is four-percent different. This suggests it is a new species of cockroach."
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Why do I keep writing about cockroaches?...
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