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title: Researchers Find That Mosquitos Lost ‘Essential’ Gene and Survived
date: 2020-10-02T17:00:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/briefs/researchers-find-mosquitos-lost-essential-gene-and-survived-956b9e00-e126-4caf-92de-d7be0789c734"
section: Briefs
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